WayneH: Texting Ban Unenforceable

Such a statute raises a legitimate enforcement question. How can a police officer tell that the driver of a vehicle is texting? An officer would have to be able to see into a vehicle and know what’s going on below the horizon of the car window — from across the road or down the street. I’ve asked several police officers to explain to me how they’d enforce this law, and the answer is they can’t. “It’s unenforceable,” one officer told me flat out. Unless officers pull someone over and observe a driver texting as they approach the vehicle, or the person admits to texting, it’s going to be awfully difficult for officers to enforce the statute/ Wayne Hoffman , Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here .

Question: Should Idaho lawmakers go ahead with a texting-while-driving ban, even though it may be unenforceable and there’s no hard data, according to Hoffman, that it causes more crashes than other distractions?