I'm all for ticketing people for using cellphones for texting, making calls, etc while driving...unless they're using a BT device. I've got a decent amount of snow here, this idiot in a Dodge Neon pulls out in front of me and then still does 15mph under the speed limit. I passed him, only to look over and see this idiot staring at his screen. I'm not sure what it is in Idaho, but in Washington, it's only a secondary offense to be on the phone while driving, which is a waste of time. Make it a driving infraction, period...holding that thing on the side of your head while doing 60mph -ticket. Looking DOWN at your lap while doing 60mph - ticket.

While I'm nowhere near as hardcore as JCL by saying no cellphone use at all and not even keeping a phone in the car, for my sake I don't let it become a distraction from what I'm doing, making it no worse that someone sitting in the car with me. Mine always sits in a dock custom mounted in the ashtray (similar to iPod style custom kits), I won't refuse to hold my phone onto the side of my head for two reasons...I hate holding this big (but still badass phone) brick of a phone on the side of my head, and because I'm using my phone to stream music to my stereo anyways, making it even more inconvenient to have to pull it from the dock just to answer it. Between construction, real estate, and BMW calls, it'd be near impossible to NOT be on the phone all the time, but there are safer ways of doing it as well.

Spend $20-$100 on a good bluetooth (I have two phones, and my BT can pair up to 5 phones simultaneously) and then people can actually keep both hands on the wheel, nothing blocking their peripheral vision, etc and less excuses for their inattentiveness. I'm literally blown away w/ the idiocy I see of people driving in general, let alone to be holding a phone on the side of their head, looking around, arm flopping and all, while attempting to both see WTF they're doing while holding the phone there, etc vs if they just had a bluetooth and kept their hands free for driving. My BT isn't much larger than my thumb, half the time I forget it's even in my ear and sure as hell doesn't get in the way of my line of sight while driving. Sure, I've had friends who told me I look stupid w/ it in my ear, but it's not nearly as bad as they'll look when they're dumb asses end up in a ditch or rear-ending someone. I've never understood why people are so anti-bluetooth, but to each their own.

In the meantime, if people die from their own ignorance of trying to do too many things at once, oh well....natural selection. It's the people they injure along the way that is upsettings. I didn't feel bad when Steve Irwin died, what did he expect to happen playing w/ dangerous animals?! Some of the people driving have the same thing coming, and they've got no one to blame but themselves.

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