I hear ya - in California, we are cracking down on this behavior. Starting in June or July, law enforcement will be writing tickets for people talking on their phones without a headset!
Such legislation has been in effect in other places -- Brazil comes to mind - for YEARS. To me, it's just as bad as people who are walking around with headphones - equally oblivious and cutting off people in sidewalks and walking in front of moving cars ...
The intended point of this review was to collect ideas about a way to ask drivers who are using cell phones to hang up. Law enforcement isn't going to cut it. The fine in California will start at $20. I can't call that much of a deterrent, leaving out the fact that people will still be talking.
As I said before, nothing angry - just a wave that conveys a simple request to hang it up.
Yeah, if you do that in California, someone will pull a gun on you. I've seen some pretty astonishing things on the road -- I remember watching a woman read a paperback novel on her steering wheel while driving 45 mph across the Bay Bridge. I called CHP but we were off the bridge by the time I got through to them (btw, I was the passenger). She didn't even have her eyes on the ROAD!
Bill Cosby had a great routine, years ago, about bad drivers -- had to do with shooting a non-removable dart on someone's car and once you had accumulated a number of darts, you had to stop driving. Catch was, you only got a certain number of darts so you couldn't go endlessly shooting bad driver's cars with darts.
Jenn A. says:
I hear ya - in California, we are cracking down on this behavior. Starting in June or July, law enforcement will be writing tickets for people talking on their phones without a headset!
Such legislation has been in effect in other places -- Brazil comes to mind - for YEARS. To me, it's just as bad as people who are walking around with headphones - equally oblivious and cutting off people in sidewalks and walking in front of moving cars ...
Eliza G. says:
The intended point of this review was to collect ideas about a way to ask drivers who are using cell phones to hang up. Law enforcement isn't going to cut it. The fine in California will start at $20. I can't call that much of a deterrent, leaving out the fact that people will still be talking.
As I said before, nothing angry - just a wave that conveys a simple request to hang it up.
Jenn A. says:
Yeah, if you do that in California, someone will pull a gun on you. I've seen some pretty astonishing things on the road -- I remember watching a woman read a paperback novel on her steering wheel while driving 45 mph across the Bay Bridge. I called CHP but we were off the bridge by the time I got through to them (btw, I was the passenger). She didn't even have her eyes on the ROAD!
Bill Cosby had a great routine, years ago, about bad drivers -- had to do with shooting a non-removable dart on someone's car and once you had accumulated a number of darts, you had to stop driving. Catch was, you only got a certain number of darts so you couldn't go endlessly shooting bad driver's cars with darts.