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DPS wants cell phone ban, expand "driver responsibility fee"

The Department of Public Safety at a Senate Finance Committee meeting this morning said they not only want to ban Texas drivers from using wireless communications in their vehicles - including both cell phones and hands-free devices - the agency hopes to subject cell phone using drivers to massive civil fines in addition to the cost of a ticket.The idea of banning cell phones is misguided enough; after all, driving while talking on the cell phone is no more distracting than changing out CDs or fiddling with the radio, not to mention, putting on makeup, shaving, eating, disciplining kids in the back seat, or any number of other activities that routinely distract drivers. But DPS wants to add this new offense to the list of those on which the state imposes misnamed "driver responsibility fee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).