>New York, in 2001, became the first state to outlaw driver cellphone use.

I live in Manhattan and walk to work. The amount of drivers I see using their cellphones while driving on during my daily commute is ridiculous. Sometimes the drivers are in plain sight of officers whom are standing on the crossing an at intersection. It's ridiculous.

Sometimes I feel like some sort of program should be introduced where if a pedestrian can obtain evidence of a driver on the phone or something, it can be submitted and the driver receives a fine while the person that submitted the evidence gets rewarded.