Letters

Make it illegal for phones to work in cars

Young people are hard-wired to take risks, or to think they’re immortal, so they’re never going to respond to shock adverts aimed at dissuading people from using their phones while driving. Instead of targeting the driver, the law should go after the phone makers. They should be forced to work on technology that disables video-chat services while the user is driving. I don’t know how they’d work that out, but they seem to think of everything else, so I’m sure it can be done. You can bet that if money could be made out of it, they’d already have acted.

Paul Crossley