ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another.
Same problem here in Tennessee. State legislature just passed a law this week making it illegal to send/receive texts while driving. It's up to the governor to sign it now. Then there will be a $50 fine for offenders. Of course there will be the stealthy offenders that will try to hide their activity and be even MORE dangerous. Don't forget to eat and do makeup/hair while driving.