Hands on the Wheel, Not on the Phone

摘要

You've seen them. A car that gradually drifts into an adjacent lane on the expressway, then jerks back into its own when the driver realizes where the vehicle is headed. Or, on a city street, the car that floats through a wide turn, then zigzags as the driver struggles to straighten it. Drunk drivers? Perhaps. But more likely, a cell phone is what's distracting them.rnThe problem is so bad that a growing number of governments are forbidding the use of handheld phones while driving. New York City recently began considering such a ban, while similar bills have been filed in California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Arizona, and Tennessee.