Re:Hands free? (Score 1)

The theory is that talking on a phone requires a level of attention/concentation that makes it different than other distractions. But this whole idea is a waste of time. I live in NY where this law has been in place for several years. And it is universally ignored. There have been a few well publicized attempts to enforce it, but with zero effect. Stand on any city street and watch cars go by. A significant proportion of drivers will be talking on their phones. I recall a news reports a few months ago that a study (hard to say if the results are meaningful) found that talking on a cell phone is similar to drinking in terms of the increased risk of accidents. So, the solution is, if you are caught talking on a cell phone while driving, you should be cuffed, hauled off to jail, and your car siezed. If your children are in the back seat it's medical experiments for the lot of them. The police could do one of those a week and people would follow the law. Otherwise, these laws are a waste of the paper they are printed on.