re: #213 Alouette

Or using the radio or any other components of a car?

Fact is that it’s all too easy to get distracted while driving. Cell phones that aren’t hands free are a distraction that can and should get limited. Much less convinced about hands free.

Ergonomics of some car components - like incomprehensible and minuscule buttons for AC/radios and the touch/lcd screens may be just as distracting. That’s something that the manufacturers need to look at.

I would support a nationwide cell phone ban that requires hands free phone capabilities, but it seems a bit of a stretch to say that hands free should also be banned.

You get to a point of diminishing returns on enforcement - limited money that can be spent elsewhere (like making it safer for pedestrians to cross streets at crosswalks).