美國加州：開車時打手機必須用免提

Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets and dot-com millionaires to surfers and soccer moms that conversations behind the wheel must be on a headset.

Several U.S. states and some two dozen countries around the world already have restrictions on mobile phones while driving but now such a law has come to California -- where the car is king and much of life is spent on the famously snarled freeways.

Californians interviewed mostly supported the law requiring hands-free phones in cars and outlawing cell phones entirely for drivers under 18, which takes effect on Tuesday.

Others cast a jaundiced eye on lawmakers, who they blame for failing to build more freeways or public transportation in the face of increasingly gridlocked roads in the nation's most populous state and say hands-free conversations are no safer.

"I can't believe that (Californians) will put up with all these nanny, nit-picking laws," KFI-AM radio talk-show host John Kobylt said.

"It's stupid because we've gone over about seven different studies and each one of them says it's the conversation that distracts you, not holding the phone," he said.

美國加利福尼亞州將從下週起禁止人們開車時用手接打手機，無論你是電影明星、互聯網富翁，還是衝浪高手或者“足球媽媽”，以後開車時如需打手機必須戴上耳機。

美國幾個州及全世界約20個國家已頒佈過開車時禁打手機的法令，而如今這一法令將在“汽車主導生活”的加州開始實行，加州人日常生活的很大一部分都是在擁堵的高速路上度過的。

該法令將於本週二生效，它要求人們開車時打手機必須使用免提功能，並規定未滿18歲的駕車者開車時不得使用手機，多數接受採訪的加州人對此表示支持。

另有一些人則對立法機關表示不滿，他們責怪政府沒有多修建一些高速公路或公共交通設施來緩解這一人口最多的州所面臨的日益嚴重的交通擁堵問題，他們還認爲用免提功能通話並不能提高駕駛安全。

KFI-AM廣播談話節目主持人約翰•科比爾特說：“我無法相信（加州人）會容忍這些如此苛刻的法律。”

他說：“這個法案毫無意義。我們對七個不同的研究進行了分析，每項研究都表明讓人分神的是談話本身，而不是手持電話。”