I love PR folks, and I love it more when they want to give you guys cool free stuff.
In case you haven’t heard, the states of California and Washington are going “hands-free” on July 1. This means that you can be cited and fined if you’re holding your cell phone up to your ear while driving. In California, the fines can range up to nearly $200, and in Washington it’s around $125. Even if you don’t live in these states, cell phone use is the number-one cause of distracted-driving accidents, and California expects the new legislation to save 300 lives this year alone.
To help you prepare your vehicle for the upcoming legislation, EGO has a bunch of great hands-free car kits (check them all out here), and they’re giving away the EGO Cup to one of you awesome EB readers (all together now: “Thanks, EGO!”). It sits in your cupholder, plugs into your cigarette lighter, and connects to your cell phone via Bluetooth. You can just order it around with voice commands, so you don’t have to wear one of those silly headsets.
If you want to win the EGO cup, just shoot me an email (evilbeet@gmail.com) filling in the following sentence:
The celebrity with the biggest ego is ______________ because ___________________ .
Please make the subject line “Ego Giveaway.”
All responses must be received by noon PST on Thursday.
Wow, this is a really great giveaway!!
Sigh…study after study has shown conclusively that hands-free devices do NOT reduce driver distractedness. It’s the talking that’s the problem, not the hand holding the cell phone.
OK, rant over. Since we have to deal with this whether or not it actually makes sense, this giveaway is a good idea.
I wish cell-phone driving was totally banned where I live. So tired of being sideswiped/run off the road or stuck behind some “Meanderthal” who thinks they can talk and drive at the same time.
You know Beet, Singapore(where i’m at) banned cell phone driving for i think 8 years now. Only “hands-free” is allowed. Too much accidents are caused by cell phone distraction. I think the whole of America should do this banning of cell phone driving. =’))
We’ve had that law in the UK for a while, but the enforcement is a joke. Every day I see drivers yakking on their phones.
But I would agree that it’s the talking that distracts. Lots of things can distract a driver – phones, screaming kids in the back seat, changing the cd, lighting a cig….. are they going to try and ban them all?
So will the winner be announced on Thursday after noon? I cant wait! I frequently travel to Washington, so this would be freakin’ sweet to own!