"Already done in New York- you cna only use a hands-free cell phone or

headset. Cops rarely pull over a driver for driving & talking (the
courts would be backlogged for decades) unless the driver is all over
the road or has kids in the car, but will issue a ticket if a driver
is using a cell phone and causes an accident (which carries additional
legal ramifications and penalties).


It will be a seat-belt law kind of thing in NY I bet, Carl. At first
when they passed the seatbelt law, they never enforced it. Now the
big deal is, they run traffic checks (mostly on freeway on-ramps)
and if you don't have the belt on, they write you up. Enforcement
was phased in gradually and folks actually got the message, pretty
soon the stops will quit producing revenue. So they'll have to
switch to something else.

Next will be hand-held cell phones.


Jim "

Actually a good way to do cell phone enforcement is to enlist the
public's help.

If the public saw someone using a cell phone while in driving a car,
record the license number and forward it to the police. Crosschecking
phone records could establish that the phone was in use during time it
was seen and with GPS the location would be available. Then sit back
and watch the revenues roll in....

TMT