Point taken, I've seen many idiots who seem to get in their car and dial their cell phones before they start their engine, but here is the question:

Will a ban on cell phones stop this behavior, and are there measures in place to already deal with it? Many states/localities have laws about driving like a moron. Also, talking on the cell phone and rear-ending the guy in front of you, or some other accident will likely result in the cell phone talker being at fault/paying/etc. In short should simply keep making more and more bans even when there are perfectly good laws in place to take care of the problem? And what about technology? Now we have cell phones with those tiny ear-pieces, how do those work with bans? Often times bans to prohibit or even encourage hands-free gizmos which, IMO, are just as bad as it is the conversation that is the problem not simply the device. Soon, your "cell phone talking ban" is going to lead to another ban, and yet another and so on as technology evolves. Sort of like an arms race.

David Boaz had an article on this at Cato @ Liberty that pointed this problem out. One instance of government intervention seems to beget more and more interventions.

1. Certain drugs can only be handed out by qualified people.
2. Oooops, we better have a regulation saying what a qualified person is.
3. What? Some of these qualified people are refusing to dispense certain drugs because it is against their religious beliefs? Okay, now we'll intevene again and tell them to knock-it-off (or not).
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If we credit the research that says they impair as badly as alcohol, this isn't "saving us from ourselves"; it's saving us from each other.

I mean, why ban drunk driving? "Nanny State! Nanny State!"

Today's winner is Chicago Alderman Edward Burke....