POLL: Do You Text and Drive?

Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended a nation-wide ban on cell phone use while driving. The recommendation stems from an investigation into a 2010 crash in Missouri that resulted in a four-way pile up between two full school buses, a tractor trailer and a pickup truck that killed two people. The NTSB faulted the pickup driver, who was allegedly texting shortly before the accident.

It is already illegal to text and drive in Minnesota.

Critics of the NTSB proposal have called it "hysterical" and "unenforceable." An editorial in USA Today compared it to the 18th Amendment, which put the kibosh on booze from 1919 to 1933.

On the other hand, editorial writers at the Star Tribune argued that a prohibition on cell use is akin to the movement to put seat belt requirements into law during the 1980s — a statutory change which has significantly reduced roadside deaths.