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Proposed Cell Phone Ban in NH Get’s Dumber Every Day

common senseThe current effort in the New Hampshire legislature to ban cell phone use in your car apparently turns on some rather unimpressive statistics.  Apparently, less than 3 in 10 fatal accidents in our state might somehow be connected to distracted driving.  They can’t be certain that distraction was the cause, but it may have been.  Of the probably, maybe, we don’t knows,  they admit that they cannot tell you what the distraction, if it was a distraction,  might have been.  And this is why we need to prevent every driver, every day, 365 days a year, in the entire state, forever, from using their cell phone in their car unless it is hands free.

Brilliant!

As I pointed out here and here, some audio here, and the federal influence here, even the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) cannot confirm the effect of cell phone use in cars related to collisions.

They cannot confirm or deny that a conversation with an actual person in the vehicle is more or less of a distraction, more or less a danger, nor can they provide conclusive data that limiting any one or more of the factors involving conversation would make any difference whatsoever.

Despite that impressive fog of inconclusiveness,  the progressive-political desire to ‘appear’ to be doing good-works has produced HB 1117 , a bill that punishes everyone, forever (with a few rare exception), based on the possibility of a fraction of a 3 in 10 chance that keeping your cell phone away from the side of your face is the cure to what supposedly ails us.

No mention of the insurmountable odds against this bill having any effect at all, of course.  Also, no mention as to the cost in lost productivity that might result.  As I understand it, productivity is of such great concern for the New Hampshire legislature that they are the only public building in the state with a ‘smoking room,’ which they keep because it has been proven to increase legislative productivity.  They can get more done if they are allowed this special privilege.  Get more done?  What, like HB 1117?

My rule has always been that the less productive any legislature is the less danger they pose to my liberty.

Nothing about how lower income folks might be ‘priced out’ of the “right to converse” in the manner mandated by the experts in the State house?

Surprisingly, there is no documented exemption for Democrat State Senators who run down pedestrians or drunk Democrat transportation committee chairman who mow down ducks in their BMW, but then, that goes without saying, doesn’t it?   No state rep will every be ticketed for doing the people’s business if it involves holding their cell phone while driving.

That means they’ll have to ban taking pictures of state reps violating the cell phone ban with a cell phone camera while driving, probably on the same flimsy, unsubstantiated fantasy being used to justify HB 1117.

Dumber every day.

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