Car Phones

Every time I see someone talking on the telephone while driving a car, I think that the world has finally gone completely crazy. As if we didn’t have enough deaths and injuries on our streets and highways, now we have more and more people driving around with one hand on the wheel while their attention is distracted by their conversations with bosses, customers, brokers, wives, friends, lovers or whomever!

What if they need to make a left or right turn? How do they work the turn signal with a phone in one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel? Isn’t it obvious that this is a dangerous innovation which should never have been allowed? How important are most of these conversations anyway?

Before many more drivers add these new toys to the rest of the gadgets in their cars, we need a state law prohibiting the use of a telephone while driving a car. We probably can’t prevent people from installing phones, but their use should be restricted to passengers when the car is in motion and the driver only when the car is parked.

BILL DELANEY

Los Angeles