I'm of the opinion of the law is useless, as useless as more gun control laws on top of other gun control laws. Wreckless driving covers it pretty well as does a number of other statutes already on the books.
Handsfree doesn't solve anything as people can postulate, gestiulate, and articulate all with handsfree AND still not have enough spare brain power to drive safely.
while this doesn't pertain to driving it does illustrate that our capacities are diminished by distractions:
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Scientists from King's College at the University of London, for example, recently determined that people trying to juggle phone calls, e-mail and other routine office distractions suffered a greater loss of IQ than someone smoking marijuana.
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There was a sign in the bus that reads, "Please do not talk to the bus driver."
Why was that there? Because they want to suppress the driver's freedom of speech? No, because it's a DISTRACTION.
I have yet to see a police officer pull over a driver for not wearing their seat belt or chatting on the cellphone here in NY where the law has been in effect for many years now. Also, they do even have random stops for DUI and Inspection stickers. I have seen people stopped in NJ for not wearing a seatbelt at those.
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