 coming soon to a state near you another pointless law  study distracted driving laws don t stop crashes washington ndash a new study from the insurance industry finds that state laws banning wireless calling or texting while driving have not resulted in fewer vehicle crashes so how about our legislature not pass another ineffective and pointless law that will do nothing but help the lawmakers say see i care about you rdquo at reelection time shall we take bets about whether or not this will actually happen though we have enough voters who want to live in a nanny state a place where the government watches over the every move of every citizen for the public good that even though the evidence proves texting laws are completely pointless people will still want them should you drive while texting of course not ndash that s a stupid thing to do but a law is not going to stop that sort of behavior common sense does that and as far as i know possessing common sense is still not required by law  