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Originally Posted by Igottago
The most dangerous thing we do every day is drive, yet we fail to realize it. Anything that forces drivers to focus on the task at hand is a good thing in my books.
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That's what bothers me about this law. No one can fully oppose making people safer, but passing a law that picks out one (obvious) distraction and making it illegal isn't going to dramatically increase driver attentiveness.
Instead, people will file this law away in the back of their head and only use their phone for "this time because it's important" or they use their phone often but instead of texting with the phone at the horizon, they have the phone on their lap so they won't get a ticket.
The danger is that drivers don't treat driving as a life-threatening task - which it clearly is.