Originally Posted by
David Weaver
I can't see why a driver should be allowed to eat, shave or put on makeup if they are not allowed to talk on the cellphone while they're driving.
Standing waiting for public trans in the morning (right by a busy road), I often see people using an electric razor as they go by or putting on makeup.
I don't think any of it should be illegal, actually, but if you ban one, you should ban them all - go right down the list of items that cause the most fatal accidents and ban them, make the law include a list of actions instead of one specific one.
I think from what i could find, phones are a factor in a lot of accidents. Whether they're the only factor in most of them, who knows. What the statistics that I did find also led me to believe was that the accidents that cause fatality are much more highly skewed toward drunk driving and excessive speed, assuming that accidents are attributed to one cause in the end (i.e., the numbers were something along the lines of 70% of fatal accidents were attributable to either drunk driving or excessive speed, and 25% of accidents overall include a phone were statistics given with the summary of one study. Obviously, there is a logic gap somewhere there, where having a list of accidents and fatal accidents separately with statistics would be nice).
If phones caused a large % of fatal accidents, or were the main factor in them, I think the article would've listed that.