Comments on: Passing laws cannot fix stupid http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/02/passing-laws-cannot-fix-stupid/ Get the real story Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: QuestionAuthority http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/02/passing-laws-cannot-fix-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-10006 QuestionAuthority Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:20:42 +0000 http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/?p=12605#comment-10006 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2010-01-29-cell-phone_N.htm "The key finding is that crashes aren't going down where handheld phone use has been banned," http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2010-01-29-cell-phone_N.htm

“The key finding is that crashes aren’t going down where handheld phone use has been banned,”

]]> By: Thinker http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/02/passing-laws-cannot-fix-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9991 Thinker Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:57:07 +0000 http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/?p=12605#comment-9991 Could not agree with you more, Michael. This newest law is merely cheap, easy (and difficult to trace in terms of where it gets spent!) revenue builder that would only have been enacted because our City Council governs by fiat. We need to change our charter so that ALL the citizens of Las Cruces get to vote on ordinances--they're getting too expensive NOT to. By the way--the recent results of a ten year study (below) shows that these laws are WORTHLESS in reducing accidents. Similar research says the same about "red light cameras". "January 29, 2010 LAWS BANNING CELLPHONE USE WHILE DRIVING FAIL TO REDUCE CRASHES, NEW INSURANCE DATA INDICATE ARLINGTON, VA — As state legislators across the United States enact laws that ban phoning and/or texting while driving, a new Highway Loss Data Institute study finds no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect." http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr012910.html Could not agree with you more, Michael. This newest law is merely cheap, easy (and difficult to trace in terms of where it gets spent!) revenue builder that would only have been enacted because our City Council governs by fiat. We need to change our charter so that ALL the citizens of Las Cruces get to vote on ordinances–they’re getting too expensive NOT to.

By the way–the recent results of a ten year study (below) shows that these laws are WORTHLESS in reducing accidents. Similar research says the same about “red light cameras”.

“January 29, 2010
LAWS BANNING CELLPHONE USE WHILE DRIVING FAIL
TO REDUCE CRASHES, NEW INSURANCE DATA INDICATE
ARLINGTON, VA — As state legislators across the United States enact laws that ban
phoning and/or texting while driving, a new Highway Loss Data Institute study
finds no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect.”

http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr012910.html

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