{"id":4075,"date":"2012-03-29T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:37","slug":"drivers-not-ready-for-cell-phone-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/drivers-not-ready-for-cell-phone-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers not ready for cell phone ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/driving-on-phone1.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2766\" title=\"driving-on-phone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/driving-on-phone1.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2766 lazyload\" title=\"driving-on-phone\" 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\/2012\/03\/driving-on-phone1.gif\"><\/a>It is three months since a ban on the use of new and old cell phones by all drivers except in emergencies, was called for by the National Transportation Safety Board. However, at an agency hearing this week, experts admitted that society simply isn\u2019t ready for such a complete freezing of communications and that enforcing such a blanket ban would be highly problematic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The forum \u2018Attentive Driving: Countermeasures for Distraction\u2019, which was held all day Tuesday, saw discussion focus on the growing popularity of portable electronic devices and how they are used by motorists.  \u201cIt\u2019s time to address how to modify attitudes, change behaviors, and save lives,\u201d says the chairperson of the safety board, Deborah AP Hersman.  \u201cWe don\u2019t need another decade of investigations and recommendations.  We need to act now.  Too much is at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The recommendation, which was made back in the December of last year, stirred up controversy, with some people applauding the strong stand taken by the agency, but others bemoaning what they saw as yet another example of \u201cintrusive government\u201d sticking their noses in where it doesn\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Nine states in the US currently ban hand-held use of cell phones, with 35 having forbidden text messaging while driving, but not one has yet enacted a complete ban.  A number of panelists and even board members also questioned why electronic devices were suddenly so much of a target given that distractions such as eating, applying makeup and even reading while driving have been going on for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is three months since a ban on the use of new and old cell phones by all drivers except in emergencies, was called for by the National Transportation Safety Board. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drivers not ready for cell phone ban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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