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The hard part with this is that so many of the people who yap on their cell for miles on end don't believe that their driving awareness diminishes while they've got the phone in their hand, so the compliance to the law is limited. Those who continue to talk "hands-on" will drop the phone into their laps when they see Officer Friendly, anyway. It's really hard to enforce.
We've had this law in NY for some time, and I still suffer from the same cell phone chatties that were mentioned above, who are lost in their choice of lanes and have no idea where there might be another car on the road within miles of theirs.
YOU ARE NOT BATMAN. IT CAN WAIT. GET OFF THE PHONE.
The law is a great idea, and it'll have an effect for a little while, but just like DWI (impaired = impaired) it's mostly after damage has been done that it comes into play at a legal level.
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