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Emergency cell phone ban!!!!!!!!

21,793 3,419 December 13, 2011 at 09:44 AM in News (3) USA TODAY
NTSB has called for a emgergency cell phone ban in cars everywhee. No use at all. I applaud this call. There are so many idiots on the road who can't drive and talk at the same time. The worst are the textings. What we need is the cops to actually enforce the law. These things are already illegal in CA but people still do it all the time.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nati...51874966/1
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12-13-2011 at 10:50 AM.
12-13-2011 at 10:50 AM.
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So GM having onstar dictates what the laws will be? No. They can outlaw it and then onstar would have to shut down. That's why the car industry started making noises about the NTSB ban already.

They won't ban OnStar Roll Why would they????

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12-13-2011 at 10:50 AM.
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There's no way in hell this ever makes it to law.
Unless you live in one of 9 states or D.C. where its already a law.

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinf..._laws.html
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12-13-2011 at 10:51 AM.
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12-13-2011 at 10:52 AM.
12-13-2011 at 10:52 AM.
Quote from travfar :
So GM having onstar dictates what the laws will be? No. They can outlaw it and then onstar would have to shut down. That's why the car industry started making noises about the NTSB ban already.
The government would never get involved in a private company.... and certainly not a car company..... and certainly not GM of all car companies. That would never happen!!!!!

Man I'm glad i sold their stock when it was $36 a share.
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12-13-2011 at 10:53 AM.
12-13-2011 at 10:53 AM.
Quote from vec :
Crylol

OnStar has saved more lives than cell phones have taken. OnStar has recovered more stolen cars than cell phones ever possibly could dream of.

It will never happen. Even as you conveniently forget that they can't even enforce the current law, let alone an further expanded one.
Really? How many lives has onstar saved? I can't find anything other than them claiming "many lives". According to the NTSB, cell phone driving has killed 3100 people this year.

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Man I'm glad i sold their stock when it was $36 a share.
I still have mine. Ford too. Toyota as well now that I think about it. I'm getting that awesome 5 cent dividend from Ford now though. YEAH!!!!
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12-13-2011 at 10:54 AM.
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Quote from travfar :
Really? How many lives has onstar saved? I can't find anything other than them claiming "many lives". According to the NTSB, cell phone driving has killed 3100 people this year.



I still have mine. Ford too. Toyota as well now that I think about it. I'm getting that awesome 5 cent dividend from Ford now though. YEAH!!!!
OnStar != Cell Phone..
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12-13-2011 at 10:54 AM.
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Quote from travfar :
Really? How many lives has onstar saved? I can't find anything other than them claiming "many lives". According to the NTSB, cell phone driving has killed 3100 people this year.

That's not a whole lot considering how many have died from heart attacks and cancer. Shouldn't you re-examine your cause?
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12-13-2011 at 10:56 AM.
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Quote from travfar :
Really? How many lives has onstar saved? I can't find anything other than them claiming "many lives". According to the NTSB, cell phone driving has killed 3100 people this year.
OnStar not Cell phones. NTSB will never mention it because it hurts their case.

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12-13-2011 at 10:56 AM.
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Quote from travfar :
Really? How many lives has onstar saved? I can't find anything other than them claiming "many lives". According to the NTSB, cell phone driving has killed 3100 people this year.
Were they hands free calls that killed 3100 people?

What's your deal with OnStar?laugh out loud
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12-13-2011 at 10:56 AM.
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Quote from Ram|bunc|tious :
Unless you live in one of 9 states or D.C. where its already a law.

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinf..._laws.html
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No state bans all cell phone use (handheld and hands-free) for all drivers, but many prohibit all cell phone use by certain drivers
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12-13-2011 at 10:57 AM.
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Oh yeah, while we're at it, let's fark thousands of people out of jobs because we want to ban a technology like OnStar...
Yeah!!! Think of all the jobs that would be lost if people started having less accidents. Less ambulance drivers, less doctors, less nurses and less grave diggers. I think it's just job killing Obama trying to kill more jobs. For what? Just to save a measily few thousand lives a year.
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12-13-2011 at 10:58 AM.
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Quote from travfar :
Yeah!!! Think of all the jobs that would be lost if people started having less accidents. Less ambulance drivers, less doctors, less nurses and less grave diggers. I think it's just job killing Obama trying to kill more jobs. For what? Just to save a measily few thousand lives a year.

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12-13-2011 at 10:59 AM.
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What's your deal with OnStar?laugh out loud
Ask the person who said that there's no way this law would pass because of OnStar. I'm just responding to that.
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