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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5751802" data-attributes="member: 54877">I'd like to see some area try a restricted usage law instead of a complete ban. Specifically, when driving on a multilane highway, require anyone using a cell phone in any way to stay in the "slow lane"--i.e. often the right lane in the US. Then study the results. The most unsafe driving I have seen out of cell phone drivers is: 1. Weaving in and out of traffic without giving enough room and/or not noticing cars in the other lanes. Frequently done while driving too fast. 2. Not maintaining a consistent speed. I often see cell phone users drive 35-40 MPH in a left lane where the limit is 60. Then about the time everyone gets around them, they hang up and go to behavior #1, and pass everyone driving 75. But even if they are merely blissfully driving down the highway for 10 miles, 20 MPH under the speed limit, in the passing lane, they are still creating unsafe conditions. (Last month, I saw a guy do that for almost 20 miles. He bolloxed up traffic so bad with the trucks in the right lane, I was stuck behind him the whole way.) Now maybe that state trooper that gave a lecture on recognizing "driving under the influence"--and the difference between too much alcohol versus typical druggie reactions, wasn't entirely accurate or is now out of date. It was many years ago. But I don't see a lot of difference between #1 behavior and drunk driving, and #2 behavior is remarkably consistent with someone blissed out on Mary Jane or similar. The drunks are a bit more erratic--and of course the upper end of drunk is completely out of control compared to the cell phone guy. But near as I can tell, compared to druggies and cell phone "clueless" driving, the druggies come off pretty well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Plus, it would be an interesting social experiment restricting usage to the right lane. I wonder how many calls would be all that important if people had to wait an extra 2 minutes to get to their destination? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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