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Get real, Weatherley! Well, er, not quite—in principle I couldn't agree more with your comment headed "Mobile Madness" (CM 22-28 Aug). However, people do all kinds of dumb things while driving. Is legislation really the answer? After all, we eat and swig drinks; manufacturers helpfully now even provide cup holders in most cabs.
We also look at paperwork, scan maps, get lost, worry, think about our holidays, argue, hold deep and meaningful conversations with our passengers, and hundreds more things besides. None of these can easily be stopped.
Despite the obvious competition, I regard the mobile phone as the greatest and worst invention of the twentieth century.
Like others, I suspect, we tried fixed, hands-free phones in vehicles but they proved very unreliable and cost a fortune in downtime and call-outs. In addition their use was difficult to monitor. Who made the calls? Why? Were they justified?
If your editorial provokes readers into thinking about their use of phones that must be a good thing. Sadly, I expect it's more likely to simply provoke some dumb bosses into issuing let-our memos ordering drivers not to answer when driving. Yeah, great...
When I allitoo-frequently hear of some death caused by lack of concentration of a driver, I imagine myself as the driver. So far that chilling thought has kept me pretty much on the straight and narrow. in the end it's all about responsibility. David Meknes,
Middlesex.