"Texting While Driving: Put The Thumbs Away" - NPR

North Carolina deserves great praise for having banned texting. Now, two things have to happen. We all need to reinforce the existence of the law to friends, colleagues and any time we are a passenger in another vehicle. Second, the police need to work as hard as they can to make sure that the law is followed. The former is probably going to be much more effective than the latter.