U.S. govt wants LOCKOUT on smartphones to stop text-driving

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Text Drivers are Killers

Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Bad drivers are the biggest crime problem we have .

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/phone-apps-lockout-driving-1.3863983

nov 23 2016 The U.S. government wants smartphone makers to lock out most apps when the phone is being used by someone driving a car.

Voluntary guidelines unveiled Wednesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are designed to reduce crashes caused by drivers distracted by phones.

Drivers could still make calls, but the phones and automaker systems would lock out the ability to enter text. Internet browsing, video not related to driving, text from books, and photos also would be locked out. Navigation systems would be permitted, but with guidelines on how to avoid driver distraction.

Fatal crashes caused by distracted drivers are on the rise, and that's contributing to a spike in traffic deaths during the past two years.

The government says 3,477, or about 10 per cent, of the more than 35,000 traffic fatalities last year involved distracted drivers. That's up 8.8 per cent over 2014. Traffic deaths spiked 10.4 per cent in the first six months of this year and rose 7.2 per cent last year, after years of declines.
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I am texting this from my smart phone, as I am driving, right now...
I have been drinking all evening as well...
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
And a Merry Fucking Christmas!
 
"necessity, the tyrants argument" SY
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a) Perhaps.
Or perhaps "creed" would better describe it.

b) "The fact that somebody over-sells an idea doesn't make it a bad idea. It makes them a bad salesman." Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA ret)
Just because tyrants may have abused it doesn't deduct from its validity.

In fact, there's an ancient Latin legal maxim that addresses that precise point:
quod alias non fuit licitum, necessitas licitum facit:
What otherwise was not lawful, necessity makes lawful.
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Funny, or not how the gubment out of our lives folks want gubment to take this action..

Phones need gubment control, not guns........
 
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