Fort Worth-based traffic researcher finds cellphone bans in school zones useless

by PegNews wire

The study found hardly a difference in cell phone usage between banned and non-banned school zones.

A ban on idiots driving in general would be more effective.

According to a study conducted by Speed Measurement Laboratories in Fort Worth, cell phone bans in school zones are not changing people's driving behaviors. Carl Fors camped out in three phone-banned school zones, two in Dallas and one in University Park, and found that there was little difference when the bans were active, though University Park was slightly lower and has had the ban in place for six more months that the two Dallas zones.

Fors also checked out school zones in other parts of DFW without restrictions, and found that the rate of cell phones usage in school zones is nearly identical whether or not a ban has been put into place.

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Pavel Lishin, says:

Does this mean that people didn't use phones in school zones much anyway? Does this mean that ditzy moms are just as useless at driving even without distractions? Does this mean that people still use phones as much as ever, disregarding the ban?