Once upon a time when cellphones were expensive and rare drivers used the phones while driving. It was legal back then and no one was freaking out about it. After all more people knew how to drive stick and taking one hand off the wheel was necessary. It was not a crime!

Times have changed and the cellphone became cheaper and affordable to much more people with immature brains. Texting came a long and a lot of parents started fearing about young drivers' safety while the same parents had no problem texting themselves. A thought that their children could drive and text was unbearable. Vote greedy politicians smelled the blood. These characters seem to follow only one recipe - find what people fear or hate and ban it! 

So, what have these anti texting laws achieved? Certainly no reduction in texting. Just look out of your car window during rush hour, and you can see clearly that texting and driving is not passé. What people do now is that they take the eyes more of the road because they must hide their phones below the dashboard. The hands free devices which are legal in some jurisdictions are not entirely hands free as they need tapping on some icons from time to time. What about listening to the radio on your phone or using it as a GPS. Well, as of January 2017 touching a phone is illegal in Saskatchewan but you can push all the buttons you want on your built in car radio. This is the nonsense these laws get us into. Kind like the executive orders of the "so-called" president Trump's.

What do you think?