Deadly cell phones in the hands of teenagers kill thousands of people every year, and injure hundreds of thousands. If CNN devoted an hour to every cell phone massacre, that would be all they covered 24X7.
The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3,360 in 2011 to 3,328 in 2012. An estimated 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, this was a nine percent increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured in 2011.
http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html
It is clear that high capacity phones must be banned. Only six texts per day can be permitted.
That’s less than 10 a day.
Sorta like Chicago homicides on a slow day.
The below is a link to old weather data that is going to apparently going to be compatibilized for modern use. Tampering possible?
http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2014/08/quest-scan-millions-weather-records/92414/?oref=nextgov_healthit_nl
As a fire fighter I have worked several ‘cell phone while driving fatalities’…..and not one fire arm related.fatality. And I live in rural.area, low traffic but everyone owns lots of firearms.
+1
No-one in high population areas should be allowed cell-phones! End of story.
We have to think of the children.
I would certainly ban cell phones and calculators in schools if I really cared about the education the children were getting. I would also ban type written reports. making hand written reports mandatory. At least that way the kids would get practices copying even if they took the information straight off of the internet.
Harter wrote a fictitious bio for Jane Austin (note the mis-spelling) and got lambasted by a student who copied it and got a failing grade. (Snicker)
Ban all use of cell phones in public places and in cars.
If it OK for smokers…