You are just showing how misinformed you are.
Getting out of your own country might broaden your horizon and give you some perspective.
To inject a little reality into your imaginary bubble, here are the actual penalties...
To our friends in the UK and elsewhere, please be assured that such thoughts are not shared by all our population. Yes, bluster, single-mindedness, and a disregard for fact, law, and courtesy are frequently on display high and low. But most of us...
I live in Ohio now, but I'm from the UK. It's an understandable assumption.
As for your assumption about high fines not being a deterrent for handheld cell phone use, you are dead wrong. It has been proven for years, throughout the UK and...
You're dodging the documented fact that death and accident rates are substantially lower in a very similar society where penalties for driving drunk and driving while googling are penalized more heavily. There are decades of actual real-world...
Or we can use facts to compare the two points of view.
Per capita, the UK has about 1/4 the traffic fatalities that occur in the US. Seems to me, that might indicate they're doing something more effective to discourage drunk driving and texting...