Cell Phone Use = Driving Drunk?! Who Knew?
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The New York Times is reporting that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2003 called off studies and withheld hundreds of pages of research about dangers of using cell phones while driving in order to avoid angering congressional stakeholders such as the House Appropriations Committee, voters who multitask while driving, and the cell phone industry. The information was released today as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by two consumer advocacy groups. Now that the information is out there, is a federal ban on cell phones while driving in the works?
Guests:
Clarence Ditlow, director of the Center for Auto Safety, one of the two consumer advocacy groups who brought the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Transportation
State Senator Joe Simitian, he tried to pass a hands-free cell phone law from 2001 to 2005 over objections from the cell phone industry and says the unpublished research would have helped him convince his colleagues that cell phones cause serious, sometime fatal, distraction
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