[drater rojam @ Sep 16th 2007 8:11AM]

so if 13.6% are teenagers, why not do what CT did, ban it for everyone? Ah, yet another case of blaming the children for everything. Like the cops back in my day, rather bust us for skateboarding than bust the kids down the street for selling crack. Good times, thanks for bringing back memories terminator.

[psyche @ Sep 16th 2007 8:23AM]

Why pick on teens? They can't vote!

[Rob @ Sep 16th 2007 8:40AM]

@psyche
Sure at 17 you can't vote. But, what happens the following year? 18 years old and straight into the voting booth. So this is not the smartest move here. I'd agree with everyone else posting here, this ban should go all across the board. Anyone can get into a car accident when distracted with/by a cell phone.

[Gerald Tan @ Sep 16th 2007 10:00AM]

Being superstar doesn't justify you pointing your middle finger as and when you like it, Arnold!

[nojok3 @ Sep 16th 2007 11:01AM]

I live in NY and it is banned for everyone. None of the police officers follow the law and ticket offenders nor do they ever stop them. It was so blatant after a set of Rochester girls were killed in an accident that may have been related to text messaging that FOR A WEEK they would start penalizing people. Its not just teen drivers, its all drivers that are distracted from cell phone use. Interesting to note that these kids won't be voting for Arnold later.

What are the cops going to do? Stop every person talking on a phone and if they are an adult just let them go? Thats stupid.

[Stefan @ Sep 16th 2007 11:18AM]

And how many 18 year olds vote?

[ethana2 @ Sep 16th 2007 11:44AM]

Well, there's the ones that are well educated, plus the ones that are pissed...
Then there are omniarchists like me who resent our lack of suffrage.

Base voting on IQ if you must, but leave age out of it.

[Paul @ Sep 16th 2007 11:59AM]

He's a douche. Age is a small determining factor in your inability to multitask, it's discriminatory to decide arbitrarily that that is the reason for accidents. I think it should be linked to your ability to multitask. I'm sure the DMV can come up with some test that throws multiple inputs at you and tests your ability to process all of them.

I mean there may be some 16 year olds out there that can't drive and talk, but I'm betting there are a lot more 60+ year olds that couldn't do the same thing.

[Carbonize @ Sep 16th 2007 2:18PM]

He should of just made it a universal ban like we have here in the UK. Anyone caught using their mobile whilst driving gets and instant fine and 6 points on their driving licence (12 points means you're disqualified from driving)

I misread the headline at first and thought they were saying he signed the ban whilst he was driving .

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Sep 16th 2007 5:58PM]

So 86.4% are not teenagers, then how are they helping?

[PhotoJoe @ Sep 17th 2007 9:39PM]

A shame. This law needs to be vetoed. We need idiot teens to self select themselves out of the gene pool. How will humanity retain its fitness if we continue to eliminate every method of weeding out those that we don't want swimming in the gene pool? It's a shame that they do bend lots of nice cars in the process though, but it's the price one must pay to weed out those who can't be bothered to pay attention to the job at hand when operating dangerous machinery.