Coming Soon to the Golden State: Yet Another Nanny-Law
As if the California Legislature didn’t baby its citzens enough already, Assembly Bill 45, which would prohibit the use of cell phones without hands-free devices in cars, has passed the Assembly and is expected to pass the Senate. All this because of a CHP study that purports to link cell phone use to to 611, or 11% percent of the 5,677 collisions caused by inattention factors during the first six months of 2002. Conspicuously absent from the sanctimony surrounding this feel-good measure is any explanation as to how, or even if, a person talking on a hands-free cell phone is supposed to be any less distracted than a person holding a cell phone while he drives.
