It's not the cell phone that is the problem. If it weren't the cell phone it would be something else.

How about instead of doing this piece meal and banning this and that specific behavior we just start treating driving an automobile on the public right of ways as the narrow privilege it legally is and start charging those who willfully engage in criminal negligence in the operation of a highly dangerous lethal machine around other innocent people with exactly that along with full civil liability along with the criminal charges ? Showing that the driver was drunk or high or texting would only serve as evidence of being willfully criminally negligent and the resulting public endangerment.

As to insurance that should be about ensuring victims and/or their families are compensated. Anything major and its a one time payout because your not going to be allowed to drive ever again because you have proven you can't handle the responsibility of the narrow privilege of being permitted to operate a dangerous lethal machine around other innocent people on the public right of ways.


I look forward to the day when the self driving car technology gets good enough and wide spread enough that the scales get tipped far enough that manually driving such a dangerous machine around other innocent people on the public right of ways actually gets treated like the narrow privilege with full responsibility that it actually is.