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Wait, aren’t state-regulations supposed to look out for citizens’ well-being? It looks like Rhode Island was banking on something like $6.2 million in fine-revenue from the ban. Turns out, that banning mobile phone use while driving will only be generating about $437,000.
One of the problems, it seems, it that Rhode Island residents actually complied with the new regulation. Officials were expecting about 100,000 fines per year, but that figure doesn’t look very reasonable anymore.
“With a budget that has so much pain, we need to make sure it’s as correct as possible,” House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox said through a spokesman. “We need to rely on numbers that are reliable and accurate and not just a guess.”
We (the People) would also like our state-government officials to enact regulations for the sake of public-safety/interest, rather than government coffers. We agree that mobile phone use while behind the wheel is dangerous (teenagers, especially) and the ban is a good idea. But it just doesn’t seem right that officials would bank on making significant revenue from such regulations.
[Via: cellular-news]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
