NY to introduce "TEXT STOP X MILES" signs along highways

[agentsteel53]

There's a lot of difference between snapping a picture, which can be done by feel without your eyes leaving the road, and texting where you constantly are looking away from the road.

this is why I gave up texting while driving.  on my old blackberry, I could type 90wpm without looking at all. 

with an iPhone, I just have never been able to replicate the feat - not even at 9wpm, and not with all the autocorrect in the world.  I had to have that visual feedback, and that is, indeed, extraordinarily distracting.

[Molandfreak]

Why am I not surprised? Would you also welcome bans on talking on a CB, smoking, eating, conversing with passengers or changing the radio station?

Slippery slope fallacy.  All of those actions can be done by feel.  It's all about the eyes.

Except for conversing with other passengers, which has been proven to be less dangerous since passengers can see what's going on around you and react accordingly. Someone on the damn cell phone cannot.