With regulation imminent, cellular lobbyists plea with travelers: Don’t text and drive
Here’s a tip from your friends in the cellular industry lobby: Don’t text and drive this summer. Please.
CTIA, the group urging you to let your fingers do the driving when you’re behind the wheel, insists it’s a seasonal thing.
As the school year winds down and the summer road-trip season begins … safety should be every driver’s top priority. Drivers should never take their eyes off the road, or their hands off the wheel for extended periods of time. When behind the wheel, a driver’s most important responsibility is safety — don’t text and drive.
Well, isn’t that nice of them?
This couldn’t have something to do with the fact that legislation to prevent texting and driving is gaining momentum in more than a dozen states, could it?
A gruesome auto accident that killed five women last summer in suburban Rochester, N.Y., seems to have become the tipping point for regulating texting. Police discovered the teenage driver had been sending an IM moments before the crash. Similar accidents are happening with greater regularity.
Is the cellular lobby concerned with our safety — or just worried that their business might be regulated? The answer, of course, is that the wireless companies don’t want anything to stand in the way of us enjoying their products. Whether it kills us or not.
The proposed legislation isn’t without its problems, either. Taking its arguments to their logical conclusion would mean banning everything from CD players to cigarettes in cars. Anything that can distract you from the road would be off limits — including unruly kids.
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