{"id":3479,"date":"2011-03-09T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:10","slug":"no-ban-for-hands-free-cell-phone-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/no-ban-for-hands-free-cell-phone-use\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ban for Hands Free Cell Phone Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hands-free-kit.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-572\" title=\"hands-free-kit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hands-free-kit.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-572 lazyload\" title=\"hands-free-kit\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hands-free-kit.gif\"><\/a>The NHTSA in the United States will not be seeking to implement bans on the use of hands free cell phone devices while driving, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.&nbsp; While some people claim that the devices, such as Onstar from GM or Ford\u2019s Sync are every bit as distracting as talking or texting on an ordinary cell phone, LaHood says the NHTSA does not have enough evidence to justify attempting to support a ban. &nbsp;He claims that they are investigating whether such devices could constitute a \u2018cognitive distraction\u2019 for drivers.&nbsp; \u201cWe base our solutions on data, and before I or anyone else gets up and starts talking about \u2018hands free this\u2019 or \u2018hands free that\u2019, or Sync or whatever, we want to have good data to back it up.\u201d<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ford and GM continue to maintain that their \u2018hands free\u2019 devices are safe to use while driving, with Alan Hall from Ford seemingly particularly unimpressed with the notion that the NHTSA were investigating their devices.&nbsp; \u201cDrivers are going to have conversations on the phone, read maps and directions, and listen to their MP3 player while they drive,\u201d Hall notes.&nbsp; \u201cFord Sync helps them perform these tasks safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaHood insists that \u201cUntil we have some good data on some of these systems, which we\u2019re studying right now, we can\u2019t really say for certain\u201d.&nbsp; GM responded to this by saying they already have such data, and there is no evidence that hands free devices were linked to accidents while driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHTSA in the United States will not be seeking to implement bans on the use of hands free cell phone devices while driving, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.  While some people claim that the devices, such as Onstar from GM or Ford\u2019s Sync are every bit as distracting as talking or texting on an ordinary cell phone, LaHood says the NHTSA does not have enough evidence to justify attempting to support a ban.  He claims that they are investigating whether such devices could constitute a \u2018cognitive distraction\u2019 for drivers.  \u201cWe base our solutions on data, and before I or anyone else gets up and starts talking about \u2018hands free this\u2019 or \u2018hands free that\u2019, or Sync or whatever, we want to have good data to back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Ban for Hands Free Cell Phone Use<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/no-ban-for-hands-free-cell-phone-use\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Ban for Hands Free Cell Phone Use\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NHTSA in the United States will not be seeking to implement bans on the use of hands free cell phone devices while driving, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. 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