Goverment to disable Cellphone use in cars

Thunder22 · #1 12-05-2010, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by JCL

Until (and unless) your government blocks cell phones from working on your nation's highways. And with that, we are back on topic, as that was the proposal discussed in the first post

It will never happen. The cell phone towers are primarily around the nations highways and serve the surrounding communities.

What happens when someone is in an accident and the phone doesn't work because the government blocked the tower access and someone dies? or someone whose house is served by a tower close to the highway can't call for emergency assistance in their own house because of bleed over "cell tower blocking"? Not to mention the money it would cost to repoint the towers.

JCL · #2 12-05-2010, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Thunder22

It will never happen. The cell phone towers are primarily around the nations highways and serve the surrounding communities.

What happens when someone is in an accident and the phone doesn't work because the government blocked the tower access and someone dies? or someone whose house is served by a tower close to the highway can't call for emergency assistance in their own house because of bleed over "cell tower blocking"? Not to mention the money it would cost to repoint the towers.

Sorry, my bad. 'On your nations highways' was phrasing I used to describe 'in moving vehicles'. The article discussed in-vehicle solutions, and technology solutions with the carriers that blocked calls from moving locations such as cars. Not sure how it would work with trains. There wasn't a suggestion to deploy jammers alongside highways.

JCL · #3 12-05-2010, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by AlexK

Will never be implemented - passengers in moving cars would be also affected, and would sue and win because they are not endangering anyone else by distracting themselves.

It probably never will be implemented, as your FCC seems to be more powerful than your DOT, and communication seems to trump transportation.

However, technology already exists to block calls from a single seating position (the driver), while allowing calls from other seating positions, the vehicle itself, and to 911. It is referenced in the article in the first post. This stops hand helds, and texting, by the driver. It just violates some FCC rule about freedom of the airwaves.

JCL · #4 12-05-2010, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by AlexK

I don't see the exact description of it, but it's probably a simple signal jammer, which is also unlikely to work properly. It needs to be very precise to affect only certain area in vehicle (again, you can't make passengers be affected by such thing), plus the driver can hold the phone away from him at a significant distance (especially when texting, or simply using "speakerphone" function) which will easily "defeat" such system. All in all, I don't see ANY way such (or any other) existing technology can reliably prevent the driver (only) from using his cellphone.

I didn't know about this product, but read about it in the first post. No comment on how well it works. Given the current rate of technological advance however, I don't think it would be a problem to have a reliable system by the time any such driver cellphone law came into effect.

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Maybe the way to get around societal objections is to have insurance companies offer discounts for voluntary installation of such devices, the same way they reward users of Tracker for car theft premiums.

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