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Safety group pushes for total ban on cell phone use while driving
A national safety group is advocating a total ban on cell phone use while driving, saying the practice is clearly dangerous and leads to fatalities.
States should ban drivers from using hand-held and hands-free cell phones, the congressionally chartered National Safety Council says, taking those positions for the first time.
The more research is done, the more we find out that the danger of cell phone use while driving is not necessarily that a phone is being held up to the driver’s ear in one hand, but even talking on a hands-free phone is dangerous, because the devil is in the distraction.
That said, there are already laws against distracted driving. All that needs to be done is to apply those laws to those drivers yammering away on cell phones, though proving it might be much harder.
