I was in Santa Monica the other Friday afternoon riding my motorcycle and was upset at the number of people on their cells phones who were completely ignoring traffic: women in large Escalades and other SUVs, men in their BMWs, Mercedes, and Porsches. They were all yacking away on their phones as they were crossing the intersection without even moving their heads around to look for other vehicles, pedestrians, etc. I was at a light that just turned green and this one woman in cross-traffic driving a large SUV and gabbing away on her cell was so unaware of her red light that she just kept rolling into the intersection, then stopped right in the middle when he suddenly realized traffic was backed up, thus now blocking cross-traffic.
Anyone see the MythBuster episode where they compared drunk-driving to talking on the cell-phone? I think they got worse driving scores while talking on the cell, than after drinking enough beer to get 0.8% BA.