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No Texting Law Should be Enforced by Cell Phones

Massachusetts is one of the latest states to pass a no-texting law. Basically, no texting while driving. Personally of the people I know who have texted while driving everyone of them has gotten into an accident doing so. The problem is how can the police enforce this law?

I think the cell phone companies could do this right now. Most modern cell phones have a built-in GPS reciever (and possibly a transmitter). Once the phone determines you are in a state that bans texting while driving it could use a time-lapse of your GPS coordinates to determine speed and disable texting if you are traveling over n mph. Of course, this would be a pain for people on a bus, subway, plane, boat or just the back seat of a car.

Or maybe at a minimum if an officer stops you for suspected texting the last n minutes of your GPS coordinates (and therefore speed) and text message history for the last few minutes could be pulled from the cell phone as evidence on the spot. It's very high-tech, but not impossible.

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