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NY Senate Votes to Outlaw Texting while Driving

The New York Senate voted Thursday to outlaw using portable electronic devices to text, play games or surf the Web while driving. The Assembly had approved the measure earlier. It sets fines up to $150 for using handheld devices or laptops to send text messages or read, view or transmit images or data while a vehicle is moving. Gov. David Paterson is expected to sign it.

"This is a long-overdue safety measure for New York," said sponsor Sen. Martin Dilan, D-Brooklyn, who chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. "Texting and burgeoning technologies continue to pose serious, and sometimes fatal, distractions to drivers of all ages."

But why stop here? Why not outlaw talking itself while driving? If you're talking while driving, you certainly are not paying 100% attention to your driving. Better yet, the gunvernment should outlaw driving in general—except, of course, for gunvernment employees. It would be good for the environment too. All of the sheeple would be forced to use public transportation.

Best of all, the final solution (my apologies to Adolf Hitler) would be to just eliminate all people from the planet. Then the planet would really be a clean, safe place for no one to live on.

UPDATE: An LRC blog reader asks* (vis-à-vis the the mobile computer setup in police cars):

Will police be required to pull over to the side of the road before running a 'suspicious' license plate through the system?

Will police be required to park their car before they run the license plate of a hot chic/dude they spotted driving by?

And what about carrying on a radio conversation with the dispatcher while chasing (sometimes at ridiculously high speeds) after 'criminals'?

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*I'm presuming this is only in cases where there is a single police officer in the car. Since there are usually two cops in NYC police cars, the one not driving would be handling these duties. In the rest of NYS, there is generally only one State trooper or local police officer in a vehicle.