I recently was almost hit by a woman talking on her phone while trying to turn, beside me in the other lane, out of a side street. She was using one hand to turn and ended up partly in my lane. I only avoided her because I don't trust those situations!

"We have too many 'national' laws micromanaging our lives.."

nonsense! We need as many laws as will cover the important situations. If people engage in dangerous behavior, there needs to be consequences...and not to me! Just having some arbitrary notion of 'too many' doesn't mean we should NOT require folks to wait a few minutes, or pull to the side to talk on the phone! It used to require finding a pay phone, having change, getting out of the car...perhaps in rain or unsafe areas..and trying to talk above traffic noise....and you couldn't receive calls!