Laws already exist to protect against dangerous driving, there's no need for new ones to ping drivers who are not driving dangerously.
A better way to approach the problem would be for the police to publicise the fact that from this moment on they will be ticketing people who they see carelessly driving while on cellphones under the existing careless/dangerous driving laws.
It's not hard to see someone driving erratically, and they often do end up being on the phone.
Those people who are driving perfectly ok while on the phone would be left alone.
It's the careless driving which is the problem behaviour, and no amount of banning will never solve this.
This cellphone ban thing is nothing more than yet another source of revenue gathering for the polizei.
For every 1000 instances of a driver using a cellphone, probably only 5 to 10 of them are also being careless, so introducing a law which enables the cops to potentially collect revenue off all 1000 of them regardless of their level of care is, for them, the best way to go.
It saves them from actually having to do any work.
The same goes for alcohol, fireworks, savage dogs and killing your own children. It's easier to herd the population into a (metaphorical) prison camp than it is to actually police and punish the behaviour.
Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai.