Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!jmlang
From: jmlang@water.waterloo.edu (Jerome M Lang)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Keywords: chasing ghosts
Message-ID: <2643@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 89 18:34:26 GMT
Reply-To: jmlang@water.waterloo.edu (Jerome M Lang)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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[discussions about car phone and accidents omitted].

Sigh. A new problem ===> we must bring a new law. Car phones may be
a contributing factor to accidents, or they not be. I don't know.
Should we introduce new laws. Why not use existing ones? If someone
drives recklessy because he/she is using a car phone, I don't see the
problem as being the car phone. I see the problem in the dangerous driving.
Use existing reckless driving laws. If someone is in the car often enough
to justify a car phone, they they probably don't want to lose their 
licence. (hopefully they don't want to injure themselves or others anyway).

Looking at number of accidents vs car phones is not the whole picture.
Picture this (not that rare) scenario. Serious accident on 401 ahead.
Driver with car phone passes by. Driver phones police. Police/ambulance
get there a few minutes earlier than otherwise possible. Driver phones
CBC, CBC reports trafic tie-up on 401 westbound near ...

No I don't have a car phone.  I don't even own a car....
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