Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!migod
From: migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Message-ID: <1989Sep7.102507.4779@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 89 14:25:07 GMT
References: <1989Aug30.104132.22252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <150006@teecs.UUCP>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Look it's rather simple.

It seems that there is a general consensus (at least in this newsgroup!)
that people talking on the phone while in control of their vehicles is 
not a good thing.  We ("the right thinking people in this country") can
do things to decrease the incidence of this hazard.  We can raise public
concern, yell at our MP[P]'s, send letters to the cellular phone companies,
demonstrate at appropriate places etc etc.  With luck, we may see some
new laws that attempt to decrease the usage of telephones in moving
vehicles.  This will not *stop* it -- nothing will.  There will be 
challenges to the laws, much like there have been over the drinking
and driving laws (Are spot checks an infringement of my civil liberties?
Should I be able to refuse to give a breathalyzer sample and do so with
impunity?  Why shouldn't my passenger be allowed to have a drink?)
But with luck we will greatly decrease the incidence of DWN (driving
while "networking").  That's what we should be after.

not to be 
-- 
Mike Godfrey			    "Well, that's the sort of blinkered, 
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT               philistine pig-ignorance I've come to
migod@csri.toronto.edu 		     expect from you non-creative garbage."