Telcos want ban on cellphone use in cars

Anthony Cannella
Mrs. Raftery
Pd 5 AP World
1. Citation:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10498116
Date: March 14, 8:08 AM NZT(New Zealand Time) 2008
Name of article: Telcos want ban on cellphone use in cars

2. Summary: This article talks about how a major New Zealand cell phone company called Telcos wants the New Zealand government to change the cell phone law. Right now the law says that you can text and use your cell phone while driving a car. Telcos actually wants the law changed so that the use of mobile phones in the driver’s seat is illegal. There is one problem with this though the Government says it has no plan to change the law.

3. Reactions:
A) This article supports the AP World history theme of impact of technology, economics, and demography on people and the environment.

B) The reason why Telcos wants this law to be passed is because of the history of cell phone usage while driving in New Zealand. Cell phone usage while driving has led to many accidents and many deaths that should have never happened.

C) The point of view of this article is from a female New Zealand newspaper writer named Maggle McNaughton who is an outsider in the aspect of the phone company’s public affairs, at the same time is an insider to the effects if this law passes.

D) The author’s point of view may be skewed in that she might not want this law to pass so she could be making this law sound like a bad idea or she could want this law to be passed so she could make sound better than it really is.

E) To get a full understanding of this article I would like to hear from an impartial person who is not an employee of the government or the phone company to express his views on this issue.

F) I think that the law should be changed and that it is a bad call on the government’s part to not change it. The main reason for my logic on this issue is for safety reasons because dialing, answering and talking on the phone, while you are driving is distracting. Your attention is not fully on the road.