Oprah Winfrey recently launched a campaign to have celebrities pledge not to text while drive. Doctors now assert that driving while texting may be as dangerous as driving while impaired.

The problem with enforcing a driving while texting law is that, unlike a driving while impaired law, texting leaves no lingering effects. In other words, you have to catch the texting in the act.

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