Car phones no more

Later this month Ontario will soon join the growing number of jurisdictions that will make it illegal to talk or text on a cell phone, unless using a hands-free device.
I remember when cell phones started to show up in the 1980s. Everyone called them "Car Phones." They were the size of a brick and weighed about the same as a brick.
It was thought to be ultra-chic to have a car phone and many movies featured people talking on them, even though the places one could get signals were relatively few and far between. Then there was the cost of the phones. No one worried about how distracting using one of them could be to a driver.
Then as more and more people gained access to them and the size of them became smaller and smaller, they no longer were just for the car. Cell phones are now everywhere, used less and less for talking and more and more for texting, surfing the internet, storing and listening to music and taking photos.
It's ironic that the birthplace for their usage has become less commonplace and now will be pretty much banned. But in the name of safety it is a good law.
I am just glad that road rage was not a big problem back in the early days of the car phone. Could you imagine someone in a convertible hurling one of those bricks at you for cutting them off. Today's phones wouldn't hardly make a dent!
–Until then,
Ken