Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!robert
From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Summary: No more laws please.
Message-ID: <136@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 22:55:04 GMT
References: <1989Aug30.104132.22252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <150005@teecs.UUCP> <1989Sep5.203417.12095@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <1989Sep5.203417.12095@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey) writes:
>Fine, so we'll introduce legislation to make such diddling illegal.  
>And anyone caught talking on the phone while their car is moving is 
>subject to stiff fines .

This kind of knee jerk, "let's legislate", reaction to everything really
bothers me.  The problem we are dealing with here is already covered by
laws, "Impaired Driving", whether due to alcohol or other drugs, or
because the driver is yakking on the phone or listening to a walkman.
The solution is to get the current laws *enforced*, not to invent new
ones.

It seems that the legal systems of Canada and the US have lost contact
with what it is they are supposed to be doing.  The current trend of
outlawing something because it MIGHT lead to criminal acts scares
the beejeebers out of me.  Laws should punish illegal acts not try
and enforce what the legislature thinks is proper behaviour.
The car phone law mentioned above rules out such actions as a *passenger*
using the car phone or emergency use while the car is traveling.
That's the problem with this kind of splatter legislation, more than
the undesired behaviour is affected.

Rob.
(We grunts never speak for our companies.)
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Robert A. Osborne                  ...uunet!mnetor!lsuc!isgtec!robert
                                          ...utzoo!lsuc!isgtec!robert
ISG Technologies Inc. 3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga. Ont. Can. L4V 1S8