Can't TEXT message on Cells while driving...

I'm for it. If someone is behind the wheel driving, they need to be doing just that - driving and not talking, texting, eating or anything else. Traffic is hard enough when you have all facilties on alert! But there are some that are going to say they are tired of the government telling them how to live. That came up back when the children in car seats being mandatory and again when the cell phone law was coming out. I just think it is more the government trying to make things safe for all when some don't give a rats. I'd rather the govt tell someone not to talk on the cell phone while driving behind me..or to the side..or in front! IF they are not competant or intelligent enough to figure it out on their own, then someone has to tell them!

Actually I find some of these laws rather redundant (albeit neccessary) since the law in California has always said you must drive with both hands on the steering wheel. Of course I have to wonder how they enforced that law before automatic transmissions LOL

Yeah they all forget about them old originals!! Maybe we should go back to many of them!

My opinion is that it doesn't matter how good a drive someone is..they are good cause they are paying attention and that is something that can't be done if you are talking on the phone.

Yes it is really ridiculous and really degrading that a race of beings that is dubbed the smartest race of beings in the history of the world have to be not just told, but penalized for doing something so pathetically ridiculous and stupid! Commone sense? Is that still around? I know I have it, but with what I see in the world today, I thought I was among the very few to possess it! Glad to know you do to!

LOL There are still a few of us out there somewhere.:)

A very good law to have. But the good things are always the hardest to enforce. Many will complain about violating their civil rights etc. I really don't know why we have any laws as there is always that loop hole that can be used to get out of everything. But - we try and hopefully we can save some lives!

Very difficult. I would bet on an accident, that they would confiscate any cell phone as "evidence" and then pull phone logs to see if they were on the cell when the accident happened. I'd bet insurance companies would make that a demand.

That is the thing - a head set, ear plug, blue tooth, whatever - is the perfect answer so I don't know what the uproar is all about! Not to mention how much EASIER it is to talk with a head set on! I mean I don't talk while driving, but how annoying to have to keep it to your ear as you move your head, your arm would get tired or if you prop it up on the door frame, you couldn't move your head and gets cramps and just what a stupid thing to do to oneself! But I have not read where sales of ear plugs or bluetooth or head sets have gone up in California! Don't call while driving is the first solution - no one needs to be that accessible and second -why break the law if you don't have to and third - how much easier and accomodating ear plug or head set would be! Nothing like making life harder than it already iS!

My daughter is on the go all the time too and as a CSI she is always away from a desk so contact for her daughter from school and such is necessary. I don't have a problem with cell phones at all - albeit mom raised us and I raise my kids, like millions others - just fine without one and then again, I'd bet pioneers were saying the same about their horses vs. our cars! But use them wisely and intelligently. While driving is neither.

You are right. Bur saddly cell phones changed our lives forever and even elementary kids seem to have one. My friend does not even have a landline anymore and everyone on her home has a cell phone. So yeah, she can be reach anywhere.

Yes....

Finally - a good reason for a back seat driver!!!!

Exactly. Head sets are so common and totally solve the problems. Hands are on the wheel, free to turn you head, etc. I just don't understand why someone would NOT want to use a head set! It looks extrememly uncomfortable to hold that tiny little piece of phone (can't lodge it between ear and shoulder anymore! ) and up to your ear, not support for your arm, surely it gets weighted down... such a simple solution for such a serious issue... go figure

Well you make sure that you pay attention to other drivers when driving. Remember you have to pay more attention now cause others could be on their phones. Have a nice day.

I don't do either. I have the phone on me only for emergencies as usually I have a child with me. If it rings/texts, I don't answer it. Once to where I am going, I'll check it if I want to other times, I figure, "I'm busy, I'll have to call you back later". I mean, I have been in stores looking at things and someone walks up behind me talking and I think they are talking to me and it either scares mea s I am involved in thinking about what I am looking at or i turned around thinking they are talking to me! Just annoying!

You said it precisely! There is a time and place for everything!

And that is the sad part - how are they going to enforce it? WIll it only come into play if there is a trial and needed for proof? WIll the cops pull people over when they see the cells being used while driving? They say it will be hard to do - well, a phone on an ear is not hard to see. Cop sees it, pulls over, driver says he wasn't on cell, cop gives ticket to produce bill showing phone not in use during the 5-10 minutes prior to the time of pull over. Done deal. But I doubt they will. Texting is harder to see - well not really - unless the person has their head completely down - then just watch the accident happen. but most hold the cell to the steering wheel while they drive so it can be seen. It just needs to be enforced.

Yes, if everyone know and practiced that, there would be no need for such a law. But obviously, many don't know or practice it and the accidents have been the cause of this law. Kind of like, "if they don't want to learn, we will just have to do it for them".

They can't. yet they still presist. So someone has to think for them.

Isn't it really annoying that something so simple as safety has to be enforced by a law? I mean, common sense says pay attention to the road only when driving. Now, we have to have laws to make people "get it". I hope they enforce it. That will be the real challenge. No sense having the law if it isn't enforced.