Posted On: May 3, 2008, 9:57 am CDT

Posted By: wudchuck

well, many states have restrictions on the new driver due to amount of driving experience and age combined. other states have banned the use all together for any age. couple of you made good points: 1) it's not the only thing that distracts folks. 2) if texting, that will force your eyes away for the look of traffic to either reading or replying back with a message of your own. 3) sometimes, even if you have a handsfree, you can be into that conversation, that you are not paying attention to the traffic 360 degrees.

remember that all our moves on the highway are judgemental calls including our choices of speed of travel. our choices can give us consequences and we have to live with those. if that choice gets you into an accident, well, we know that can be a costly item both physically, emotionally and financially. we need to be conscious of not only ourselves on the highway but others who share the road.

*** note: i have a cellphone, but i only use it in my vehicle for emergency road service.