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May 12, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Don't encourage hands-free use of cell phones

San Francisco just passed a law requiring hands-free use of mobile devices for drivers and InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz is ready to take shelter in a hummer as a result.

"Watching a driver blithely drive down the wrong way on a one-way street while said driver was also talking on the phone, leads me to believe people aren’t as multifunctional as they would like to believe," Schwartz writes in today's blog.

"The question is, I suppose, does this law make it safer to use a cell phone while driving, or will it encourage those who may have been reluctant to use a cell phone, to start using one, thus increasing the overall number of accidents caused by cell phone usage in a car?"

Let us know where you stand on this issue.

Posted by Caroline Craig on May 12, 2008 10:19 AM


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