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New Zealand refuses to ban cell phones

 

Date: Friday, 08. June 2012

The New Zealand Land Transport Safety Authority has excluded banning cell phone use while driving from a list of proposed law changes recently put up for public consultation. Research does show that cell phone use is distracting, says the LTSA, but hand-held and hand-free phones are equally distracting. Enforcing laws against hand-free phone use would be too difficult, the Authority maintains. It would be difficult to prove someone was using a cellphone at any given time, without corresponding law changes that required users to disclose phone numbers to police and empowered police to access and search cellphone records. At the same time, there is insufficient evidence to show that making it an offence would reduce crash rates.

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Judith,

what you should try to do is hide your eootimn. if you are nervous, hide it. act as cool as possible. and when you are acting cool, you will notice that you will actually become cool.if you have a hard time hiding your nervousness, just change your state of mind. convince yourself that you could care less about getting your license, so if you fail, it doesnt matter. that way, there is no reason to be nervous.dont worry, took me two times to get it.and one more piece of advice. just think of it like this: there are millions of people who have their licenses, which means millions of people have passed their road test. what makes you think you are any less prepared than any of them to get yours?hope that helps


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