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U. device disables driver's cell phone while car is running

Devices to prevent cell phone use in vheicles has been around for years but everyone ignored them. Police departments already employ them and use them all the time. They are available for homes as well. But now that this technology has made the news, I am for anything to disable cell phone use in a vehicle. It will be a hard sell to install this technology in cell phones and automakers both. My question with this car key design, will it disable all cell phones in a vehicle including passengers? The problem with the car key concept is that car keys will soon find an aftermarket supplier that will not include the technology. This would also add more cost to the already costly car keys being used now. A device implanted in a vehicle by manufacturer and a required upgrade on all older vehicles would be less costly and more effective against disabling by owners. The cell phone companies would not have to be involved or change their service to its customers and have the same effect of disabling all cell phones in a vehicle and those in the immediate area. It's current technology readily available.

Unless the Government steps in and mandates the installation of Cell phone stopping devices (Can anyone say 1984), this idea will never fly. Their will always be less than intelligent individuals who insist on leaving on, and answering their cells while driving. I'm all about safety but I,m all about freedom to choose as well. Like Adult seat belt laws, isn't this another infringement on my personal right to choose what I want to do in my own vehicle, which by state law is also my own private property?

Hopefully they make these deviced mandatory and a fine imposed for disabling them in any way. A car is not a phone booth.

No Cell Phones in Cars? Does anyone really think this will come to be? It is a nice thought, but not reality. Sorry.....

Where can you buy them at or are they for sale yet

I'm so tired of government control. Do you realize there are millions of people who use cell phones responsibly? I'm one of them. And if my child is at home and needs to talk while I'm running an errand, they have every right to. Make this device a choice not option.

Folks, the answer isn't in control..it's in consequence. If the laws were upheld, if people had to serve jail time, they their pocketbooks were hit, if people saw that we were serious...which we are not...then it would change.

A perfect example of this is child abuse. Mothers can neglect and kill their children and have no legal consequences. When we start holding parents responsible, parents will start thinking before they act. For now, it's painfully obvious that people can get away with murder.

So, if we are going to be consistent, then we need to start keeping tabs on people and decide whether or not they are worthy to be parents before they have kids. We can let them have limited access to sex....but certainly not let them pro-create...that would just be irresponsible, right?

So what technology is available to prevent reading, applying makeup, quiet fighting kids, looking at maps and otherwise remove all the other myriads of distractions that come up while driving?

What about my freedom to drive drunk? I cant believe there are people like 'laura' and 'notnew' who will stand up for their 'right' to put us all in danger simply because they think they can still drive and chat. Little hint, you cant. You are a horrible driver when you are on your phone.
It should be illegal to drive and use a cell phone.

If you are tired of gov't control, then demonstrate some self control! Turn off the darn phones, we're injuring and killing people so drivers can have a chat while they should be driving. Ethically and morally speaking, this is comparable to abortion. Is it always about you and no one else?

The seat belt comparison is faulty because it only affects you (and your family, of course, if you are killed in an accident). If you are driving while texting, run a red light or drift into another lane and hit another car, you have very obviously affected someone else. It goes along with that old saying that your personal freedom ends where another person's body begins.

When comparing to other incidents can you give the factual information, because every time I have read an article about a child being killed due to neglect the parent was sentenced to jail.

It is about using a cell phone while the car is running, for heaven's sake. I, for one am tired of driving near people who weave around the freeway while talking on a cell phone, who don't notice when to turn on a street and cut into you while talking on a cell phone. This is dangerous.

WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONNECTED TO A TELEPHONE 24/7! Amazingly, people got along for many years without having to chat incessantly. I don't think cell phones ought to work while someone is driving.

So let's see the statistics on how many people are injured by drivers using cell phones vs drivers doing things like reading, putting on makeup, adjusting the radio, etc.

And some of us do need to be connected 24/7, because lives depend on us.

I agree that too much government control is bad but using a cell phone while driving is endangering other people. If it only affected the ones doing it then I would say fine, let them kill themselves. But when innocent people are at risk by inconsiderate behavior then something needs done. I could never understand the need to be constantly yaking anyway.

Talk about too much government control to those who have lost a loved one because someone is so selfish that they can't pullover to use a cell phone. Studies show that you are as impaired driving while talking on a cellphone as while driving under the influence. So let's do away with all the drunk driving laws because, yeah, it's just to much government control!

Lives depend on you not driving like crap. Other than that, your call can ALWAYS wait. There is no situation where you talking to someone while driving can 'save lives'.

How about we invent a device to keep people from eating too much? Then we won't have fat people who burden the health care system. It will be good for them and everyone else. They'll have higher self-esteem and more money.

How about we put a device on people that disables them from having sex until they're married. That way, we won't have any irresponsible, unprepared parents, and this would be better for everyone.

Oh please.

I have a little under 2000 hours as a pilot in light aircraft. We always used a headset, boom mike and a push to talk switch. I have used one ear bud a holding dock for the phone. It works fine.

I see police cars with computers, radios, cell phones, etc. Do you really believe THAT is safe?

Driving is not a right, it is a privelege...and therefore talking on your cell phone while you drive is not a right. It is beyond selfish to put everyone else on the road at risk so that you can talk or text on your cell phone. And to justify this use by the means that there are other distractions out there......."but what about everyone who puts their make-up on, or reads, or adjusts their radio?" Stop whining.
More than one wrong does not make a right!
Lives do depend on you.....everyone who drives on the road next to you depends on you to drive responsibly. And that means removing unnecessary distractions, including your dang cell phone.