Are Cellphones Just Too Dangerous To Have In The Car?

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Feds Urge Total Cellphone Ban While Driving LOS ANGELES -- Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she's behind the wheel – and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion when it comes to safety. Though she admits thumbing her phone while driving is bad habit, the University of Missouri student says drivers "are mature enough to understand when it is appropriate and when it is not." The National Transportation Safety Board disagrees, and it declared Tuesday that texting, emailing or chatting while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed anywhere in the United States. The board is urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies following recent deadly crashes, including one in Missouri after a teenager sent or received 11 text messages within 11 minutes. VENICE SMACKDOWN: LA City Council Votes To Restrict What Boardwalk Vendors Can Sell WATCH: Brian Grazer Didn't Think Tom Hanks Would Be A Star WATCH: 'I Hate People Who Drop Names.. & Lady Gaga Agrees With Me' Paul Rudd To Read This Famous Script At LACMA 'It's The Black Version Of Christmas' BLOG POSTS Norman Lear: My Start in Television My writing partner Ed Simmons and I were living in L.A. with our families in the summer of 1950, selling living room furniture door to door to support ourselves while trying to break into show business. Judy Farah: Carlos Santana Bashes Ronald Reagan, Gov. Jerry Brown and His Family During Induction Into California Hall of Fame It was supposed to be a night of celebration and inspiration to showcase the innovators and celebrities from California who inspired the nation. Those in the audience did not expect to hear this from Carlos Santana. Bill Maher: TV: A Box Full of Good Memories On the inevitable occasion of the Huffington Post's entrée into television, it behooves me to say a few words about the business, and occasional art, of television. William Bradley: Jerry Brown Pulls a Trigger, Invokes Rome, and Focuses on Climate and Initiatives As long expected, Jerry Brown found himself having to pull the trigger on mid-fiscal year budget cuts occasioned by lower than forecast California state revenues. But for less than feared. Beth Broderick: It Happened One Christmas Today, there are almost no facilities in Los Angeles that can house a homeless woman with her children. I am so grateful to Good Shepherd for answering their need and for taking my call on that dark night so long ago.

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