{"id":301,"date":"2010-10-08T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:51:35","slug":"usa-considering-complete-ban-on-cell-phone-use-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/usa-considering-complete-ban-on-cell-phone-use-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Considering Complete Ban on Cell Phone Use in Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last weeks reports that many cities that have banned texting and approved hands-free only use of cell phones have seen an increases in accidents, this was partially expected but likely will never pass.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is weighing, Bloomberg reports. LaHood thinks motorists are so distracted by their cell phones that bans on texting don&#8217;t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>There are already restrictions in 30 states, but LaHood goes much  farther. He even has Ford&#8217;s Sync in-car communications systems and  General Motor&#8217;s OnStar in his sights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/driveon\/post\/2010\/10\/transportation-ray-lahood-cell-phone-ban\/1\">read the rest on usatoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last weeks reports that many cities that have banned texting and approved hands-free only use of cell phones have seen an increases in accidents, this was partially expected but likely will never pass. That&#8217;s what U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is weighing, Bloomberg reports. LaHood thinks motorists are so distracted by their cell phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[488,506],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-news","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}