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You can't be serious?
However, the seat belt law (another one I am not sure is warranted)

I can tell you've never seen anyone ejected thru the windshield, or known someone who was killed when the car rolled over their body as it was hanging halfway out the window. I guess child seats are a joke, too? Study up on it.

When's the last time you had to dial a number on your CD or radio? For the most part all music takes is your ears, not eyes.

Once you change your CD or station (5 seconds?) your hands are free. How many 5 second phone calls do you make? Plus, you change your CD when it's convenient to you, but do people only call you when it's convenient to you? Do you block your field of vision by holding your CD or car radio up to your ear?

Dialing while driving: do you need to make that call that second or should you wait till it's safe?

The helmet law was repealed here in PA to the argument "I know the consequences, so it should be my decision to make". Is it a coincidence that head truamas and death have gone up in the period immediatelly afterwards? That's alot of medical time and money wasted on the preventable that should be focused on those that really have been hurt in something beyond their control

Why not see how this fares before complaining that it's a crock? I for one don't think the system should spend all that time and money on an accident that may have been prevented if the person had both hands on the wheel for 44 minutes and 50 seconds of the 45 minute phone call about something of importance on the level of who had the better looking outfit at the MTV awards.
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Some laws are good  MariusSilverwolf | 06/30/08
If you want to wear a seatbelt...  Henry Miller | 06/30/08
Stats prove it  MariusSilverwolf | 06/30/08
Good points all, but medical costs aren't just money  mdsock@... | 07/03/08
The New Law  tikigawd | 07/02/08
Actually....  FatherJ | 07/03/08
Yeah...  cuba_pete@... | 07/04/08
Wise actionsjust enforcement  pdf6161 | 07/03/08
Well said, indeed.  rickroberts_mcse@... | 07/03/08
Wise actionsjust enforcement  Daiv_Skinner | 09/15/08
I understand your concern re insurance  HawkCW4@... | 09/15/08
You can't be serious?  Pliny the Elder | 06/30/08
I Agree!  akkarin2.0 | 07/03/08
To paraphrase Heinlein...  Henry Miller | 06/30/08
When it affects others  MariusSilverwolf | 06/30/08
Well, when that day comes  Pliny the Elder | 06/30/08
You don't own the roads  toadlife | 06/30/08
I do indeed own the roads  BroGnorik | 07/01/08
Sick propaganda.  Bruizer | 07/01/08
How would he know?  Pliny the Elder | 07/01/08
So using tyour logic...  tikigawd | 07/02/08
It's a secondary charge anyway  FatherJ | 07/03/08
Here's a suggestion  shallow_diver | 07/01/08
Report also states it doesn't matter, no cell phone should ever be used  palmsolo (aka Matthew Miller) ZDNet Moderator | 07/01/08
Hands-free is not brain-free  AskQuestions | 07/01/08
Unwise choice of "expert."  null | 07/01/08
I say...use a fake phone and  davebarnes | 06/30/08
Good Idea  cuba_pete@... | 07/04/08
Ignorant  SteelTrepid | 07/04/08
I say...use a fake phone and  Daiv_Skinner | 09/15/08
Big Brother gets bigger  riredale | 06/30/08
They should ban rolling phone booths altogether!  MGP2 | 07/01/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  RuudBijvank | 07/01/08
CT stupidy spreading  robbieharrison@... | 07/01/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  thingymabob | 07/01/08
Driving should require thinking. So should bloggging.  null | 07/01/08
Please please please  MariusSilverwolf | 07/01/08
No, I'm not.  null | 07/01/08
Unsafe Behavior  MariusSilverwolf | 07/02/08
no meaningful content....  snberk341 | 07/01/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  rhon@... | 07/01/08
Stupid, stupid, stupid  tonymcs@... | 07/01/08
a more moronic column  raelalt | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  smkyjo | 07/01/08
I welcome this law.  kraterz | 07/01/08
STRAW MAN!: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  radams36@... | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  jeyroberson@... | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  jim_d@... | 07/02/08
Lame only because it's not stringent enough. And Matthew seems selfish.  shawkins | 07/02/08
RE: Lame... "law of convenience"?  wp2008 | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  raelalt | 07/02/08
Hands-free Laws Redundant and a Dangerous Precedent  kg6ygs@... | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  marccnm@... | 07/02/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  meister2681 | 07/03/08
Lame? You will end up laming others!  AntiM$ | 07/03/08
cell phone laws  lajetee478 | 07/03/08
State trooper  joe.johnson@... | 07/07/08
Really definitive  radams36@... | 09/15/08
Use 2 hands  Stan57 | 09/15/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  georgereeves | 09/15/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  goldenpirate@... | 09/15/08
ITS NOT LAME Evidence exists do a bit of searching  brians@... | 09/15/08
RE: Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008  Daiv_Skinner | 09/15/08

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