IP: COMMENTARY ON CELL PHONE BAN: "ANOTHER DUMB LAW": Telecommunications Review - June 28, 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> COMMENTARY ON CELL PHONE BAN:  "ANOTHER DUMB LAW"
>
> In spite of recent studies which show cell phones low on the list of 
> "driver distractions" leading to collisions, many states are jumping on 
> the New York bandwagon to enact similar legislation regulating wireless 
> use by motorists.  San Francisco Chronicle commentator Debra J. Saunders 
> compares bad laws to viruses, and fears the whole nation is getting the 
> bug to regulate by ordinance what people can't seem to regulate on their 
> own.  (San Francisco Chronicle)
>
> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/28/ED151006.DTL>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/28/ED151006.DTL



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