I must be green but people actually do this?
Law passes house for banning texting

aaaannnnddd, no using phones in construction zones and school zones. It was not clear if a headset was allowed. The paragraph was a little confusing.

Yes there are people stupid enough to text while operating a 3,000-4,000 pound vehicle. They would be the ones weaving all over the road. One can only hope that the theories of Darwin would intercede to thin that herd.

Yes, and this one reason why mandatory seat belt laws and air bags are bad ideas.

Taxpayer must have hit his head on the windshield very, very hard without benefit of either.

It is already illegal in Illinois for under 18-year-old drivers to be on the phone when they are driving - but I see them talking, gesturing and driving all of the time. It is also illegal for drivers in Chicago to use a hand-held phone - but during a drive around the city yesterday, I saw many drivers clutching their phone to their ears and yammering away.

I know others are better at multi-tasking than I am, but I also witness daily the driving mistakes of people who are nowhere near as good at it as they believe themselves to be!!

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Originally posted by Gabriel:
Taxpayer must have hit his head on the windshield very, very hard without benefit of either.

You obviously are humor challenged .

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I saw many drivers clutching their phone to their ears and yammering away

Say, a few well-placed remote cameras and you've got yourself a new revenue stream, I mean, enforcement mechanism!

I don't know anyone who does this.

Wait...

...yes I do.

My neighbor’s brother was killed by a driver playing with her phone. Makes you think twice when you know someone who has been so tragically affected.

Awaiting Quinn's signature which seems certain.

I wonder whether there will be any complications in enforcing this. Does a person have to be entering text? Will the officer need to prove that a message was sent? Can you be reading text (or otherwise interacting with the phone) and still be legal? Is this only while the vehicle is in motion?

Enforcing this?? Ha! Like they enforce people riding the left lane on the hwy or putting on their make up or shaving, or plucking their eyebrows, or driving in rain without their headlights on, etc...

I know people that can't breathe and walk at the same time and yet, they get into their cars and proceed to play with the radio while driving. There's no law against that, is there?

I don't agree with people carrying on conversations on the phone while driving. But... seriously?? It would just be one more law.

If common sense prevailed, people wouldn't be texting while driving. But I have seen drivers drifting into other lanes while texting, even while dialing their phones...

Oddly enough, even though you need to have your seat belt on, and your headlights on while your wipers are going, you can ride a motorcycle without a helmet...now THAT either signifies real stupidity...or perhaps a strong lobby...

William

I agree, enforcing is going to be an issue. Also, punching in a phone number is awfully close to texting. I haven't read the letter of the law, but it would be interesting to see how it differentiates texting from phone number dialing...

Would probably be more of a vehicle of punishment/proving fault in litigation. Can't imagine there would be too many tickets written...but the act would certainly make for good evidence at trial.