I agree with tnt88.

Bandagirl32,
I am sure you are talking from experiance. The problem is not the cell phones however, it is driver distraction (REGARDLESS OF CAUSE).

Some people simply cannot walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. Some people are highly talented multi-taskers, others cannot.

I am sure in your experiance you found that you cannot do both. Yet I am sure you listen to a radio while driving. I am sure you talk with your passanger while driving.
The problem lies with individual drivers, not cell phones (Hands free or otherwise). For every driver that wrecks because of talking on a phone, there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands that hold their conversations while driving just fine.

It is those few that create the bad media for which everyone blames the phones rather than accept responsibility for their own inattentiveness.

the main problem is that for most who are not able to do both, they dont see that limitation and think they can. I commend you bandagirl32 for recognising your limitation, however don't apply your limitation to everyone else.

As I said, it is driver distraction, not cell phones that are the problem and how do you create a law that is fair to everyone?
How do you legislate responsibility?
The answer is: YOU CAN'T!

There is already a law that states a driver is in violation if he/she allows themselves to become distracted from their task of safely driving a motor vehicle. It does not matter that the distraction is due to talking on a phone, talking with a passanger, trying to eat your drive-thru, or listing to your radio/CD player, shaving, or applying your eyeliner!

If you do pass a law banning cell phones, what next? Make all cars single seaters?
Do not allow any radios in the vehicles?
Remove all drive-thrus in the fast food industry?
Once you pass one stupid law, where do you stop?

All these problems are is lack of responsibility for own actions.
No law can ever be written to force people to take responibility pro-actively.
All you can do is pass laws to punish those who violate after-the-fact, and we already have one. Maybe we should look at a greater severity of fine for the law that already exists.
Food for thought.

I classify all driving cell phone usage as potentially dangerous. Dangerous cell phone usage requires three things: a driver, the act of driving, and a phone. You can't govern or control the first two in this respect, so the only other factor that you can control is the phone. No matter what laws you try to pass or enforce, cell phones are simply too easy to use - people will continue to use them as long as they feel they'll get away with it. As long as they get away with it, there will be car wrecks and fatalities.

If only there was technology available to install a device in steering wheels that would temporarily disable all cell phones and texting devices within 2 feet of the steering wheel. Maybe this exists already - I haven't heard of it.

If that works, we can then work on disabling all idiots, jerks, dopes, punks, and thugs within two feet of the steering wheel.

Some people cannot multitask, but they still issue a drivers license to 80 something's that repeatedly endanger lives on the road. Once the status quo has been reached on deaths there will be a new law of the land, but the lawmakers here are the insurance companies. Every one uses a cell phone these days even the ones that will eventually enforce the laws that ban it.

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It is totally dangerous to talk on a cell phone while driving, I don't care how careful of a driver you think you are it distracts you. I'm talking from experience.