Taylor Leiby, 17, of Seal Beach, had a mixed reaction to proposed legislation targeting young drivers. On the one hand, he said, it's important to save lives, and he agrees that text messaging while driving is particularly dangerous. "You can't be driving and looking down at your phone and pressing buttons at the same time. It's out of the question."
However, banning young drivers from talking on cellphones while driving could be inconvenient, says the Los Alamitos High School junior, who has already passed his provisional period and recently got his first car. "You can't pull over to the side of the road -- especially on a freeway -- every time you get a call," he said. Creating a driving curfew of 11 p.m. for provisional drivers "would be a huge problem and interfere with teenagers' social lives." It could affect their ability, he said, to drive home from late football games or dances, for example.
