Anything "divert" your attention while driving is dangerous. IMO
fibbi 發表於 2009-8-17 09:24 
I am not pro text n drive or anything. I think they should've banned texting already, and should have law for hands-free for cell phone for a LONG TIME and can't believe we are so behind the rest of the world on this...
However tho, I'm sick and tired of this 'anything that diverts your attention during driving should be banned' stupid argument. What pisses me off the most was when the radio said efforts have been made to push for 'complete ban of cell phone use' because 'study shows that even tho you are not playing with your phone, merely talking to it diverts your attention'.
I don't see any difference in terms of distractiveness between talking to a passenger and talking on the phone. If our argument is that talking on the phone diverts attention and thus shall be banned, then we should make all cars single passenger vehicles. More-over, these talks are completely unrealistic and can only come out of mouths of people without a brain. Do they actually think it's feasible to ban all form of communication on all passenger, and more importantly Commerical vehicles? Have they considered the impact on businesses and productivity?
Some might argue that safety > all else. Then we should, as I've argued, banned passengers (or at least talking/interacting) in cars, ban putting make-up on in cars, ban eating in the car, ban listening to radio in the car, etc. In fact, the most dangerous action of all involving vehicles is the act of driving itself, shouldn't we ban that first?
So first we failed to address the issue where people are causing hazardous situation by texting and driving or holding the phone and driving. Now that we are way behind the curve as compared to the rest of the world, we decide to look into the complete ban of cellphone use (including handsfree) as a form of knee jerk reaction. If this is in HK there woudl've been push (and there was) for handsfree only for a long time already. If this is HK, stupid politician who come up with unrealistic ideas would've been met with vocal opposition like Lik would've done in these forums. Yet when it comes to Vancouver, people are just sheeps to these short sighted and unrealistic policies.... Vancouver oh Vancouver, you never fail to disappoint me... |
發表於 2009-8-16 21:10
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