If The Feds Ban In Car Calling, Will It Be The Most Widely Ignored Law Since The Prohibition?

U.S. safety investigators last week issued their strongest recommendation yet on how to curtail distracted driving: ban all use of mobile devices behind the wheel, including those that offer hands-free calling or texting.

The National Transportation Safety Board is asking all 50 states to implement the ban, which is far tougher than restrictions put in place in many states that prohibit handheld phone calls or texting while driving.

If the NTSB gets its way, technologies such as Ford Motor Co.'s heavily marketed Sync, which promotes hands-free calling, are at risk because they are built around drivers connecting their smartphones to the car.

Joe_Limon - 12/19/2011 1:15:43 PM

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lol, I would definitely enjoy talking to myself every time I passed a police car.

PUGPROUD - 12/19/2011 4:27:31 PM

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It is almost a certainty that if law passes insurance companies will deny you coverage if proven you violated law when an accident happens...its easy to prove and once this gets around it may scare most from breaking law, except your teenage kids who you are responsioble for.

Joe_Limon - 12/19/2011 4:50:57 PM

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When/if the law passes, it'd be nice to own part of an insurance company. lol