We All May End Up Needing Designated Texters...

Yesterday the Senate just put forth legislation that would ban texting/e-mailing while driving.

If state's don't abide to enforce such a law, the consequences are just about the same if a state didn't enforce the drinking age of 21: they would have to forfeit 25% of highway money each year until the money is depleted (basically hundreds of millions of dollars).

“Studies show this is far more dangerous than talking on a phone while driving or driving while drunk, which is astounding,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, one of four Democratic senators to introduce the proposal.

The sudden cause of the bill is due to a recent V-Tech Transportation Institute that found that truck drivers face a 23 times greater risk of crash or near crash when texting than when not doing so.

According to the NYT, texting while driving is banned in 14 states, including Alaska, California and New Jersey, as well as the District of Columbia. The New York legislature recently passed such a measure and sent it to the governor for a signature.

Unless you're blatantly texting with the phone inches away from your forehead, I don't know how the police are going to enforce this...