I take comfort knowing that both fatalities and accidents are way down in America despite increased cell phone usage.

Freedom and liberty comes with side effects and one of those might be a slight increased risk posed by drivers and cell phones.

My solution is not to criminalize and extort money from drivers who cause no harm with their cell phones, but rather to punish more severly drivers who DO cause harm while using a cell phone while driving.

I also believe America could reduce a much more significant amount of injuries and death by cracking down more on drunk drivers. However, people like their alcohol too much to actually punish drunk drivers enough to deter further drunk drivers.

Drunk drivers cause far more accidents than cell phone users. Go after them first and reduce more accidents that way.