NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban

http://www.ntsb.gov/about/organization.html

The following offices report to the Managing Director:

• The Office of Research and Engineering
• The Office of Railroad, Pipeline, and Hazardous Materials Investigations
• The Office of Aviation Safety
• The Office of Highway Safety <--------
• The Office of Marine Safety
• The Office of the Chief Information Officer
• The Office of Administration
• The Office of Administrative Law Judges

 

Like the provision they are floating around that we will be ALLOWED to use a cell phone in an emergency? --Really? LoL. The LAST thing you should be doing in an emergency is talking on a cell phone.

 

I want to same it's similar wording the texting bans. I don't actually know, or really care because I don't text and drive. I can barely text and walk.

 

And this has what to do with the fact that the NTSB has no legislative authority?

Although "Managing Director" sounds like a real impressive title....please look at your link...the chart sows that the "Managing Director" then reports to the 5 member board....SO WHAT(???)

And all of the "Office of" groups are parts that make up the Department of Labor...what is not listed is OSHA...since it is a sub-section of the bottom of the list, "Administrative Law Judges"....and OSHA has no legislative powers....and did you know that in the Dept of Labor, when you make an OSHA complaint, and the hearing before an Administrative Law Judge...that "court" has no "powers of contempt"...so it is OK for either party, (Complainant or Respondent) to basically lie or just make things up that aren't true or Germain to the case and not have to worry about lying under oath!

 

Comprehension still not your strong suit I see. No one said all accidents are from swerving or from you no-steering wheel holding drivers. What was said is while you think your so adept at not driving it isn't noticeable you quite wrong. It is very evident to those making allowances for you behaviour.

Ah yes company drivers can not possibly have a valid opinion or point



Do me and the rest of the motoring public a favor when you find your bridge abuttment make it a suicide not a murder.


I do thank you for clearing up your ilk's term steering wheel holder terminology for me. Obviously your far to busy to actually hold onto the device designed to control the direction of your vehicle. Well until you hit the reset and the level starts over huh?

 

I love how your remarks are pretty pointless half the time. Please keep the pointless laws that you seem to love so much with you. Obviously you need nothing nor do you have anything in your truck that might distract you and you think you are above every other driver on the road and think nothing will happen to you. Please be a "big" boy and when you have your accident put a picture on here for us all to see. You seem as the type that wouldn't get out of your truck as your afraid of the big bad truckers out here.. Will you please ask for more rules and regulations....

 

Seriously, you are remarking that someone who has a different opinion than you make something into a suicide. Proof that there are some that would be surgically impossible to remove their head from where it is stuck.

 

Not the difference of opinion. Using the statement that operation of his vehicle is secondary while driving down the road.

Volvo I have every confidence in my ability, and further fear no onems driving as my ability makes of for their lack on a daily basis. It is the innocents I see much like my family without those skills needlessly endangered because people do not know their limitations.

The hypocrites on this board ######## about that four wheeler, that cop, that steering wheel holder whith the phone crushed to his pie hole turn right around and claim it is unfair to fix the problem because it isn't them. News flash yes it is.

Can a hands free conversation be carried on in some situations? Sure. That is not the question before the NTSB though. They are tasked with identifying the problem killing people and make recommendations to correct those problems. If you want no one killed because someone dialed a phone, or ranted at their wife, or was having phone sex(actual case down in Florida) ban and with technology prevent the use of those devices.



And yes odds are people that treat driving as a nuisance secondary to their other tasks will eventually have collisions. My hope when they run into something is they only take themselves out and not someone with nothing to do with their bs that was o' so important that they couldn't pull over to deal with it. Hence the wish they only commit suicide and not homocide.

 

First off just how slow are you going for an oversize hauler to be passing you and why are you taking your eyes off the road ahead of you to watch him and what his doing in his truck? I bet you and Tazz say in contact with your congressman to push for a ban on roadside billboards dont ya?
Oh and one more thing, when I hear or in this case read the words dude and hand in referring to drivers I just wanna slap the dog #### out of that person. Nothing personal but it shows your age and lack of respect towards truck drivers.

On a roll today.

 

It's not the device, it's the person using it. If that person doesn't have that device, they are still a menace because there are plenty of other things for them to use as an excuse. We have laws on the books to use for the cell phone/texting/using gps issue, and it's called Distracted Driving. Law enforcement needs to actually enforce the laws on the books. We don't need new ones just because a few can't handle focusing on what they need to be doing behind the wheel of their vehicle.

People keep wanting new laws so they don't have to actually think, use common sense or take personal responsibility for their own actions. Those three issues are a bigger problem than any gadget that one can have in their vehicle.