Some laws about phone use and eating/drinking/etc. while driving went into effect where I am recently.
I've got mixed feelings. On one hand, it pisses me off for the man to tell me I can't text and drive, but on the other hand, traffic deaths are increasing and a large fraction involve phone use or other distracted driving. I'm not sure this is really any worse that DUI laws (which I also have mixed feelings about, but support more than this).
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[–] ilikeskittles 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't know. I have mixed feelings about it as well. Humans are completely capable of multi-tasking. But, many functions on the phone these days are really to distracting or require to much attention to perform. I was an early adopter of cell technology, had a phone installed in the car. That phone was much easier to operate than this little hand held thing. I also thing making a phone call or talking on the phone really isn't as big of a problem as the texting. As someone else suggested I'd disable the text function if its moving at a more than a walk, but not the whole phone.