If this can happen, image what would happen if a motorcycle had stopped to fix something on the side of the road?

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There is nothing that should be done other than design and construct all motor vehicle laws to make operators responsible for their own actions.  We do not need special incentives added to laws.  Once extenuating circumstance becomes a modifier to any law, the law becomes vague. Without an objective standard it all becomes ad hoc and arbitrary; ad hoc and arbitrary is the foundation of vague law; vague law is unconstitutional.

The laws should have no consideration of anything other than the specific law being broken.  Should another law be broken, simultaneously, charges of that particular infraction of law must be brought forth.

Birdman:

If this can happen, image what would happen if a motorcycle had stopped to fix something on the side of the road?

What are we doing to eliminate the problems that cell phones create?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0627abrk-dpscrash0627-ON.html#

I'm almost never in favor of new laws, but I gotta tell you, I think that the whole cell phone issue deserves one. I'm for banning them from use in a moving motor vehicle entirely.

Doing something does not mean "create new laws" it means take action.

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I definitely agree with you that action needs to be taken, but on this particular issue I think the best action would be legislation, though I'm intrigued by the idea of design changes to cell phones.

I'm pessimistic about the potential for legislation to reduce the problem.

The only way a law can "work" is if it induces people to change their behavior. But laws bring about change only to the degree that people perceive a change in the consequences of the behavior. In this case, drivers already perceive crash danger in texting while driving, and that limits it somewhat. To significantly reduce texting while driving, they would have to perceive additional risk due to getting a ticket. And, I contend, that's where most traffic laws fail. The chance of getting pulled over for texting would be too small to change behavior. Moreover, people with the good sense to do it safely would be punished along with those who lack it.

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People don't change behavior unless they believe it is wrong. Traffic laws don't make it wrong, they just make it costly.

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In most states the weight of the charge, if charged, is a misdemeanor which means nothing to a majority of the citizens.

Text messaging while driving is of course, a common distraction to most drivers that can't help themselves but to answer the call or a text message instantly the time they got it. Worse that it always lead to trouble. And sometimes accidents.