Calif. may turn car license plates into distracting e-ads

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: June 21, 2010 1:42:15 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Calif. may turn car license plates into distracting e-ads

> This has to be the winner of the Stupid Distracted Driving
> Idea of the Year -- maybe the decade.  The legislature here in
> California wants to study turning car license plates into distracting
> "e-advertising" devices.  If they *really* think that limiting the ads
> to times when cars are stopped for a few seconds will make them any
> less distracting overall, we'll see what they say when the lawsuits
> from injured drivers start rolling in.
>
> It's pretty (sickly) hilarious that the same legislature that pushed 
> through a ban on hand-held cell phones -- despite every study showing
> that hand-held and hands-free cell phone use are equally distracting,
> is even *thinking* about this looney license plate concept.
>
> Dumb dumb dumb.
>
> http://bit.ly/bEr3BA  (Mercury News)
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein
> lauren () vortex com
> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
> http://www.pfir.org/lauren
> Co-Founder, PFIR
>   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
> Co-Founder, NNSquad
>   - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
> Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition 
>   for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
> Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
> Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
> Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein



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