Impossible ban?

[Wilson L. Deaton]

From CNN:

New York may ban iPods while crossing street
POSTED: 12:07 p.m. EST, February 7, 2007
Story Highlights• Legislation would ban gadget use while crossing the street
• Three pedestrians in Brooklyn killed stepping into traffic
• New York senator: We have a major public safety crisis

Read the article at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html

It might be a good idea but absolutely impossible to enforce. (Though it could ensure liability ends with illegal listeners.)

Wilson

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

It seems to me that the "nanny state" is alive and well!

[Joel Merrill]

If they do that, they should also ban talking on cell phones while driving. That's another good idea that would never work.

Joel

[Stan Hall]

I believe the proposed legislation includes a ban on cellphones and other portable audio devices.

Stan

[Marsha Lynn]

If they do that, they should also ban talking on cell phones while driving. That's another good idea that would never work.

Joel

They've already done that in NYC, haven't they?

[Jim Franklin]

I have heard the term ipods used but I am not sure just to what the term refers. Enlightenment please.

[Wilson L. Deaton]

I have heard the term ipods used but I am not sure just to what the term refers. Enlightenment please.

iPod is the brand name of the most popular portable electronic media player.

As in: first transistor radios, then portable cassette players, then portable CD players, now iPods.

Wilson

[Marsha Lynn]

I have heard the term ipods used but I am not sure just to what the term refers. Enlightenment please.

Take a tall stack of LP record albums, find a device to grab all the songs off of them and store those songs electronically in a slick little box that will fit in your pocket, and you'll have an iPod. Of course, there may be some songs that you like but don't have on an LP. In that case, you can go to the online iPod store and buy those songs for 99 cents each to add to your collection. iPod is a brand that has a lot of support (software and accessories). More generically, you can buy an mp3 player that works similarly.

Now all you need is a set of "ear buds" to hook to your iPod and you can shut out the world with all its nagging voices and annoying sounds of honking horns and screeching tires every time you step off the curb and you can live in your own little world where the music never stops ... until the EMTs show up.