Saturday, January 28, 2012

Using Your Mobile Phone When Driving


There has recently been a lot of press associated with the push to stop people using their mobile phones while driving. Even the press have joined the chorus, asking to have people classify their cars as 'no-phone zones'. One celebrity has asked people to sign a pledge stating that they will not use their phone whilst driving. Wow!

The accident statistics in America show that approximately 16,000 deaths between 2001 and 2007 were caused by drivers texting on their mobile phones. Pretty astounding figures. There have also been videos of people, including bus drivers, texting on their mobile phones whilst driving with passengers in the vehicle.


The risk of collision jumps 23 times if you are using a mobile phone whilst driving. If you have an accident whilst using your mobile phone you may also lose your car insurance privileges as your phone records can state that you were on the phone at the time of the accident.

The main offenders in this epidemic of mobile phone use while driving are young adults. How do we stop our kids from driving whilst using their mobile phone? Is it possible that we have some type of contraption installed in the car where you need to dock your phone (disabling its usage) in order to start the car? If the mobile phone that is to be 'docked' has to have the correct mobile number programmed, this being the driver's mobile number, then this could be the answer, if that's at all possible of course.

The problem is that when you set out to reverse search a cell number you will start hitting walls left and right, and the reason is that the so called free directories usually do not offer any real information about cell lines as they might with regards to landlines.

Indeed, mobile phone numbers and the respective information about the owners is stored in the carriers database which is privately held and not freely available to the public.

This means that the claims of some website about free reverse cell phone lookup are usually false and they only seek to lure you in with the promise of free access when in fact you will have to pay for any information you want to get about that mobile number.




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