EDITORIAL CELL PHONE DANGER.WE all know, as one more study shows, that cell phone usage while driving increases the likelihood of car accidents. But we can't bear to give up our cell phones. Stuck for hours a day in traffic, they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be the closest thing we have to real human interaction. What to do? Well, it would seem that vehicular cell phone use is, like driving itself, a privilege and a responsibility. If we maintain the privilege of gabbing in the car, we ought to also be responsible for doing so safely - hands on the wheel, no dialing while driving, stay focused on the road, and so on. So rather than enacting any draconian dra·co·ni·an adj. Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts. [After Draco. bans, authorities ought to enforce existing laws on reckless driving reckless driving n. operation of an automobile in a dangerous manner under the circumstances, including speeding (or going too fast for the conditions, even though within the posted speed limit), driving after drinking (but not drunk), having too many passengers in more stringently and increase the penalties for any violations committed while on the phone. That would serve an important notice to reckless reckless adj. in both negligence and criminal cases, careless to the point of being heedless of the consequences ("grossly" negligent). Most commonly this refers to the traffic misdemeanor "reckless driving. motorists: Talking is OK, driving like an idiot isn't. |
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