[shezza]

Maybe some people see this as an infringement on their rights, but the last thing I want is to be injured or kill by some idiot gossiping about some garbage.

While you're at it, then, ban car radios, talking amongst passengers, eating and drinking, bickering kids, maps, GPS systems, anything and everything that could possibly distract a driver. How about roadblocks to check for evidence of french fries in the floorboard?

(The road to hell--and fascism--is paved with good intentions.)

[Wooly]

It is strange that when we talk of the use of cellphones in vehicle that people adopt a libertarian view that I have this right. As such would you be in favor of doing away with speed limits, driver's licenses, drunk driving laws, age limits on driving, probably not.
The one legitimate area that government has a responsibility is Public Safety and the use of cellphone usage while driving is proving to be a safety issue that is increasing rapidly.
Studies have shown that driving a vehicle down a road uses one heck of a lot of your brain's capacity to process the information you encounter. At the same time when you talk on a phone your brain also devotes it's attention to hearing, digesting the information, formulating a response, and delivering that response, at which time it repeats the process. This is why when you are behind someone talking on a phone you often see them slowing down and then speeding up, Making hand gestures and taking their hands off the steering wheel, or as I have witnessed running into the back of another car without even braking.
Phone usage, of any type, in vehicles that are in motion is more dangerous than a drunk behind the wheel.
Before there were cell phones, you did not need to stop at every pay phone you pasted to call someone about some garbage, so why do people need to drive around talking all the time.