Cell phone usage in automobiles continues openly in spite of legislation. People walk through stores talking loudly as if they are in a private phone booth. Cell phones are used openly in restaurants. And, common courtesy with cell phone usage is out the window!

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Oregon just passed a new law about texting as you are driving. Cops can't be everywhere.


I don't believe the problem to be cell phones. It is just a matter of basic manners.

Fine, wait until you are talking on your cell phone in the car and have an accident with injuries, and we'll see how feel then.

Unlikely.

My comment is directed at you apparently wanting to legislate talking on a cell phone even outside of an automobile.

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They're busy chasing down poor saps that they might be able to shake down for a for DUI.

Cell phone tickets are chicken feed.

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People do not multi-task as well as they think they do. Listen to these cell phone conversations, most are junk/gossip calls. I'd like to see cell phones out of business. You sound as if you are going to lose a buck if things go "safety first."

you may want to consider staying inside so the modern world does not annoy you.....

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Well, then I am not alone because there are 20,200,000 listings in Google under "Anti-Cell Phone." Check for yourself, here is the link. Google

America is just getting ruder and cruder. Neobarbs all.

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When they first introduced the law in NY, I thought it was so completely dumb. How hard is it to talk and pay attention to the road I thought. Then when I moved to Colorado, with no laws regarding cell phone use and driving, I noticed on a daily basis many people driving oblivious to anything going on around them. I could spot them blocks away, driving way under the speed limit, hesitant in pulling across a road, making turns. it was unbelievable. Had a woman try to make a left turn out of the right lane of a 2 lane, one way road, while talking on the phone. Then you see jackasses texting while driving. As much as I am alert while talking and driving and don't drive overly slow, I've even noticed I have missed my turn while on the cell phone on occasion. So other than a short 1 minute answering if even that, I don't talk and drive anymore,.

It's a huge problem, but they won't do anything about it in Colorado. What did they recently pass? It's illegal for teenagers to text and drive. Just teenagers? REally? It should be illegal for all drivers.

ANd its not even limited to people in cars, people can't even walk and talk on the phone with being aware of what's going on around them. I saw one guy cross diagonally across a 3 lane road intersection, yapping on the phone, and never even looked any direction, while I was ready to cross. Or people standing in the middle of the street talking on the phone or in the middle of a doorway blocking everyon'es exit.

Pisses me off, get off the phone jerks and pay attention. many times it like 7 am and people are on the phone, who the hell do you need to talk to at that hour while driving?

They most definitely are a problem when driving. and it may be hard to catch someone talking and driving, but having the law in place holds that person accountable if they wreck while talking on the phone at least.

Yeah, that is a bit overboard wanting to regulate talking on cell phones outside of cars. THat just comes down to common courtesy which can't be legislated. But talking on cell phones and driving is proven to cause inattentive driving.

People will argue that people can still be distracted by talking to passengers, but usually you have other eyes watching the road also, so its much less a problem than cell phone usage

When you see these nimrods yapping or texting while driving, lay on your horn and blast the shit out of them. Gets quite a reaction from them.

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