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While we all know we shouldn’t send text messages from our mobile phones while driving, some of us keep doing to. Hack, we’ve even seen the poll results suggesting that 89% of American want to ban SMS behind the wheel, yet 66% of them have done it.
On the other side of the pond, UK authorities decided to react to the new potential danger. Following several survey results and let’s not forget that incident with the British teen who ended up in jail for texting while driving, the Crown Prosecution Service added a new charge of “dangerous driving” for related incidents. That charge would require the driver to be doing something likely to kill or seriously endanger somebody, while fiddling with a device like a phone or MP3 player.
The idea is to introduce a new deterrent, to get people to finally pay attention behind the wheel. Will the potential punishment of up to 2 years in prison help? It certainly sounds frightening. What do you think?
[Via: Autoblog]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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