NTSB will mandate installing the "Cone of Silence" in all cars

Ban all cell phones in cars. That's the unanimous ruling today from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The recommendation, unanimously agreed to by the five-member board, applies to both hands-free and hand-held phones and significantly exceeds any existing state laws restricting texting and cellphone use behind the wheel.

Bureaucrats run amok! Because there's already a law against texting and driving, and another law banning cell phones for drivers under age 21, but sometimes those laws don't work.

The board made the recommendation in connection with a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year. The board said the initial collision in the accident near Gray Summit, Mo., was caused by the inattention of a 19 year-old-pickup driver who sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the crash.

Why don't they just mandate we install the Cone of Silence in every car?

It'd be about as effective as all their other bans.

If only we could ban human stupidity…

UPDATE 14 Dec 2011 10:04:
The Daley Gator links!

But in an unfortunate juxtaposition of headline and post text, it reads:

OK, it really says, "Chris Wysocki presents …" Meaning, of course, that I'm pointing out the Marxist Moron Of The Day. Still, to a casual reader...

Oh hell, any publicity is good publicity, right?

Right?

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