No more texting in the fast lane in California

California will usher in the new year by becoming the seventh state in the nation to ban texting while driving. You will be fined $20 for the first offence and $50 for any subsequent ones.

This is not California's first experience at focusing its drivers. Legislation requiring hands-free phone conversation while driving was pushed through earlier this year following a 6 year battle. 45,000 citations have been cast since then and the bill against texting was pushed through much more easily.

An academic study conducted in Britain established that driving while texting is more dangerous than driving while drunk or stoned on drugs.

All those Silicon Valley executives used to twiddling on their iPhone and other fancy tapping devices are understandably fidgety.

The United States is not the only country in the world trying to keep drivers' eyes and concentration on the road. In Pakistan, the new look traffic police force has been buzzing to ticket drivers attempting to engage in a phone conversation without a bluetooth headset. The war against rash driving is truly global.