"Stop TEXTING, EATING, PUTTING MAKE-UP (ON), TALKING ON THE PHONE while driving, " Francisco Marcelo Gadelha said.
Mr Balls was caught by the police using his mobile phone while driving during the 2010 general election campaign.
For business travellers, who typically spend a lot more time in automobiles instead of on planes, the idea of not being able to talk on the phone at all while driving is a stifling proposition.
It is illegal to use a mobile phone held in the hand while driving or while stopped with the engine on.
The group said using a cell phone while driving quadruples your risk of crashing.
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Driving Mode recognizes that certain features of the phone are useful potentially lifesaving while driving.
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Sure, we need to switch off the phone and lay off the Big Macs while driving, but we also need to keep our attention tightly focused like a Formula One driver careening around a racecourse at 150 miles per hour.
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While the news media reported this as banning texting while driving and hands free phone use, it would also affect smart phones, tablets and even car radios.
No surprise, then, that more than half of teens (54 percent) say they use a hand-held cell phone while driving, similar to the 61 percent of parents who say they do so.
What we do know is that using a smart phone while driving or walking does increase the risk for injury.
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My suggestion for public action is that every motorist (or pedestrian, or cyclist) should have the right to take the mobile phone of any motorist caught using a phone while driving and crush it underfoot as an immediate penalty.
In a bid to restore some order, new rules introduced on 1 January stepped up penalties for speeding, drinking and driving and using a mobile phone while behind the wheel.
The rules imposed penalty points for motorists who drove through amber traffic lights, with a driving ban after two offences, as well as increasing penalties for speeding, drinking and driving and using a mobile phone while behind the wheel.
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"Where before users would pick up their phone, taking their eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel while driving to select a station and hit play, AppLink makes all of that functionality available through voice control, just like managing AM and FM radio or your MP3 player through SYNC, " said Julius Marchwicki, SYNC product manager.
Driving while chatting on a mobile phone is common, though specifically forbidden by the new rules.
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Among the other findings, nearly 25% of teens still said they don't see talking on a cell phone while driving as unacceptable.
The driver claimed to be using the phone for mapping purposes and argued that the state's distracted driving laws shouldn't have applied (he says he was looking at a map on the phone while holding it in his hand).
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