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If CA is concerned about safety, how about cell phone jammers or screen blankers in all cars then. (No I don't support either this or speed governors)
by gedy 3y ago
If CA is concerned about safety, how about cell phone jammers or screen blankers in all cars then.
(No I don't support either this or speed governors)
- neilv 3y agoI stood on the corner at a major intersection during evening commute time, and counted drivers who were obviously looking at cellphones while they were going through the busy intersection. It was half of them. I'd start to address this with a two-pronged campaign: 1. Some kind of competent communications of how dangerous this is, and what the harm really means. 2. Technological measures like device behavior defaults for people who believe they're operating in good faith, to help them follow through in good faith, without being too onerous or authoritarian (nor pretext for more surveillance and control abused for other purposes). After that's settled in, and we've hopefully broken the widespread default bad behavior, so that people still doing it generally will have knowingly opted-in to reckless, I'm open to introducing criminal penalties commensurate with harm caused.
- gedy 3y agoI used to assume it's mostly "those darn kids" but damn if it's not also the older people staring into their laps on even the freeway. My neighbor was killed when a guy plowed into him on the sidewalk looking at his phone, so I'm extra pissed when I see this.