# NTSB recommands ban on driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic device

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [December 13, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntsb-recommands-ban-on-driver-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-portable-electronic-device/261751 "2011-12-13T11:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntsb-recommands-ban-on-driver-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-portable-electronic-device/261751/20 "2011-12-13T21:48:10Z")

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> [@Dads New car/toy No 56k](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dads-new-car-toy-no-56k/47251/28):
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> The vehicle he was driving…DONE GOT F’ED UP YO.
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> Hate to say it but…darwinism. I know a family lost a son, etc. but…I have no sympathy. I’m guilty of texting when driving, etc. but I’m smart enough to know when to do it and when not to do it. That might not seem like a good justification but it is what it is. If I’m going straight on a highway, I’ll likely text. Or eat. Or listen to the game and get pumped up about what’s going. But when I’m in stop and go traffic or a city environment, etc…I know better than to look down at my phone.
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> I’m not a chronic texter while driving, but I’ve done my share.

While we all have have done things while driving we shouldn’t have, you really can’t talk like that.

Nobody things they are out of control with what they are doing, or it’s dangerous at the time of them doing it.

It’s like a drunk driver that says they are perfectly in control of whatever they are doing and dont over step their boundaries of drinking and driving until the one major accident they get into.

It’s like saying you know what you’re doing in snow driving until the one time when you go too far or just a bit too fast and cause an accident.

It’s not the 99% of driving you have to worry about, I’m sure they can send 99 texts without getting into an accident either, it’s that one text that distracts at a wrong time which is an issue. Otherwise there would be a _lot_ more driving accidents due to texting around.

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