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    Consumer Confidential: It's time cellphone signal jammers were installed in people's steering wheels

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Nov 06, 2018 4 minutes

    A couple of years ago, a Florida man was fined $48,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for employing an illegal signal jammer during his commutes to prevent nearby drivers from using their cellphones.

    I can relate. I bet you can too.

    It's illegal to have a cellphone in your hand while behind the wheel in California and at least a dozen other states. But that doesn't stop people from doing it.

    Not a day goes by without encountering thoughtless, self-entitled fools endangering themselves and those around them by talking or texting while on the road.

    That's why I'm calling on the auto industry to install signal-jamming technology

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