Laws target teen drivers' cell phone use
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Narin Leininger knows about the risks of talking on a cell phone or sending text messages while driving. The 16-year-old high school junior says he'd only use his phone behind the wheel in an emergency &#151; a flat tire, traffic jam or crash.
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It's a moment that many of us have experienced: The cellphone, deep in your pocket or stuffed in an out-of-reach briefcase, starts to ring as you're driving down the road. It could just be a friend, calling to gossip. Or it might be someone at the office, warning you that the meeting you're headed...
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Wireless devices slip past anti-gadget policies to open a new communications channel to lawmakers.
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Motorists caught driving dangerously while using a mobile phone, sat-nav or an MP3 player could be jailed for two years, under new guidelines issued on Thursday.
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According to a University of Utah study, motorists who talk on cell phones drive more slowly on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less frequently, and take longer to complete their trips. The study suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic.
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ST. LOUIS - A teenager has been accused of using a stolen cell phone to swamp dispatchers with hundreds of bogus 911 calls over a matter of weeks, at times talking of killing some of the responding officers he could see.
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Many teen drivers believe it's less dangerous to drive after smoking marijuana than after drinking alcohol, a perception the government wants to change.
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use.
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Social-networking sites have become an integral part of life for most teens, with talk of collecting friends and tweaking profile pages peppering chatter both online and off. But if a Connecticut lawmaker has his way, access to the sites by underage users would require parental consent.
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A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted teens based on predictive text.
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By Colin Stewart, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Jun. 19--Editor's note: Second of two columns on new uses of mobile  phones. Last week: an info-on-demand service for cell phones.
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Rather than banning the phones outright, schools are capitulating to demands of parents and market realities, and allowing students to carry cellphones in school.
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Numbers of people using hand-held mobile phones is believed to be rising again in spite of tough new legislation.
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The digital generation gap shows up in the attempt for schools to ban cell phones outright.  Teens and parents are pushing back against the attempts to take away the phones they have come to depend on so much.
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California on Friday banned motorists from talking on cell phones unless they use a headset or speakerphone, although the law will not take effect until July 1, 2008, to allow time to educate the public.
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A small South Carolina company says it has a cure for the modern plague of budget-busting cell-phone charges racked up by teenagers: a gadget for text-messaging that isn't a cell phone.
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It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads - all at a parent's fingertips.