Bluetooth Subsidy Act..

does not exist in Shanghai. I thought that the CA law that banned talking on cell phones while driving (aka Bluetooth Subsidy Act) was a further step towards a "nanny state", where big government would pry into every part of your private life in order to control every one of your actions. It basically penalized good drivers for some stupid people who probably shouldn't be driving or even be insured in the first place. But typical CA legislature overreacts and passes a punitive law that pretty much became a corporate/taxpayer-paid subsidy for Bluetooth hands-free products. So after the law passed, you would see people wearing those annoying Bluetooth devices around their ears, b/c they were just so damn important that they needed to wear it like some gaudy, look-my-ear-is-blinking-blue-lights accessory. I also don't think the highways became that much safer b/c I think people falsely believed that they were driving safer when talking with one of those devices.

So anyways, my whole point is that in the 3ish months that I've been here in Shanghai, I haven't seen one person wear one of those Bullshit-tooth devices. (And of course, the xenophobic American media response would be: b/c Chinese citizens are too poor to buy cell phones, aren't allowed to own personal automobiles, and b/c the government doesn't allow personal wealth and people live in squalor and poverty. All, which of course, is horse shit, but I digress..) It's kinda refreshing actually to not have to see people talking to themselves while walking down the street.

So in conclusion, which place doesn't allow its citizens to talk on their cell phones while driving?

A) California
B) China - the "communist" country


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