NTSB Doesn't Care What We Think

As you may or may not know, the NTSB wants to ban cell phone usage in cars. The fact that such a ban will only remove one of many distractions and do nothing to reduce accidents where distracted driving is a contributing cause doesn't deter them. Nor does the fact that the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to control what a person does or doesn't do while they're driving in, say, Atlanta, Georgia. None of that matters. Nor does the fact that people don't want them to do it. http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/automobiles/200301-ntsb-chief-defends-cell-phone-ban-recommendation-were-not-here-to-win-a-popularity-contest

"I think our charge is not worry about what's popular," Hersman said during an appearance on on C-Span's "Washington Journal." "We don't take surveys to try to figure out what we should say. In fact, many of the recommendations that we make are not popular with folks...

Whatever happened to legislating with the consent of the governed? If we don't want our government to do something... they do it anyway? I think I missed something, there.