[Grunthor]

I know a lot of our more libertarian minded FReepers may not agree but I am all for laws like this, having seen several times people driving dangerously, stupidly or both due to having a damned PHONE attached to their empty friggin’ head. You say you have a right to talk on the phone and drive? Fine, but I reseved the righ to shove that phone up your nose after you rear-end me.

[NewJerseyJoe]

I am as far from a nanny-stater as you can get, but I have always approved of the NJ cellphone/driving law. The times when I have been cut off, almost hit, run out of the lane, or forced to a screeching halt by a driving cell talker are beyond count. I also don't like getting stuck on a single-lane, no-passing road for 10 miles behind someone who is so into his conversation that he doesn't realize he's driving 15 miles below the speed limit. All of this goes back to the mid-1990s, back when cellphones were bigger and a lot fewer people had them.

Of course, since the law in NJ never gets enforced, it's really a moot point.

[olivia3boys]

I’m in CA and I know that it will be far more distracting for me to struggle to turn on the speakerphone feature and answer my phone instead of just flipping it open and answering it.

In CA you can dial a phone or whatever else, just not hold it up to your face I guess.

I find my 4 young children in the backseat far more distracting than my phone anyway. FAR more.