On: 1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket teleph...

[rwmj]

That was illegal well before 2007. It was banned in the UK in 2003: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3015610.stm

[csours → rwmj]

It takes a while for the future to catch up to some people.

[qingcharles → rwmj]

And it's a lot harder to text and drive in the UK since the percent of automatics is so much lower. It's really hard to steer and change gears and text.