[LINK] Car rego number is sms and email address

[Nick Smith]

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> From: 	Anthony Healy[SMTP:thealy@magna.com.au]
> Sent: 	Thursday, 25 October 2001 11:13
> To: 	Jan Whitaker; Stephen Loosley
> Cc: 	link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: 	RE: [LINK] Car rego number is sms and email address
> 
> 
> > Good grief! This fills me with dread. Now we get the youth market ...
> > typing SMS while driving down the road?
> > Can we get a public safety organisation interested in the effects of
> this
> > sort of thing and have it stopped?
> 
> Road safety authorities have become very interested in the whole issue,
> but
> there is a strong counter-attack by the mobile phone ( cellular )
> industry.
> The issue has become prominent in the US over the past 12 months, and lead
> to New York introducing laws banning the use of mobile phones while
> driving,
> and most other states considering similar legislation. Australia already
> has
> similar legislation, but of course it isn't enforced. 
> 
++ The ACT has such legislation and it is enforced to the degree that my
wife was pulled over by the police and ticketed for talking on a mobile
while driving. 

++ But it certainly is dangerous. I've seen many drivers zoom around corners
one-handed without indicating while talking on a mobile...

Nick