Florida's texting while driving law takes effect Tuesday

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We have all seen other people texting, searching the Web or looking for a phone numbers on their Cell Phones but how many of "US" have done the same once, twice or multiple times?

How many of us have fiddled with the radio, or checked our faces in the mirror, or been distracted with a hundred other things while driving, etc?? Answer: Everyone. They're all potential distractions that can equally lead to an accident, so calling a single one out (as this law does) is stupid & pointless. Not to mention, unenforceable. But hey, its a law now, so it should all just go away. Amiright?

Honestly, if these people really want to do something that would actually save lives & truly help the situation, they'd try to lessen car dependency so everyone isn't forced to drive a 4,000 pound death machine when they want to step outside their front door. I know, that's crazy talk.

I see your point, however, these cell phones are an epedemic.  I can count on one hand that number of "distracted" drivers I see on a typical commute.  I would need 10 hands to count the number of people I see on their cell phones during a typical commute.

IMO, this is a stop-gap put in place to be used as a scare tactic to try and reduce the number of cellphone related accidents until the technology necessary to make everything hands free hits a price point low enough to become the norm for daily drivers.  We're close to enjoying hands free cell phone integration into our cars on a wide scale.  Right now its just the newest and higher end vehicles that are utilizing it.  Soon, all cars will have hands free capabilities for cell phones. 

On a side note, as far as I can see, all of the technological advances with cell phone integration into our vehicles has been the result of the FREE MARKET meeting the demand of drivers....

They could have integrated this a long time ago. All it would take is a heads up display (which they all have), mics, speakers & bluetooth integration. And software that isn't a POS & that plays nice with modern phone OSs. All of this hardly costs anything. The problem is car manufacturers are notoriously SLOW at adding technology like this to vehicles. They just now started putting auxiliary jacks into cars on a wide scale only a couple years ago. And I can remember when CDs were the norm & the fuckers were still putting cassette players in these things as standard.

They want these things as upselling "add ons" like they're some great luxury or something in 2013. Because everyone knows its all about the addons & anything to squeeze a buck from you. Ask any honest dealer, they'll tell you the same.