So now it's illegal to receive a text? Can't prove if and or when it was read, by whom it was read, and a million other factors. You really think they'll allocate the resource involved to take those measures, for a $100 (or whatever minimal price) ticket they're attempting to write? Not to mention a plethora of other defenses, above and beyond if a message was recieved or not. Only way for this to be at all effective is to ban all cell phone use altogether. Sure it might scare a few people into abiding by the law, though I guarentee you, *if* they were able to effectivly prosecute people, it will merely scare a small number of folks into abiding by the law. I'll give you the benifit of the doubt and say they manage to push this crap through the courts with ease, there is still no way, even repeated minor tickets will stop most from using the phone (if anything now they'll be more secretive and doing it by keeping the phone lower and or other methods that will only lead to great distraction). This all goes without mention that most new cars already have system dedicated to sending and receiving text's through the car's stereo system, I can send and read texts, make calls, all through the buttons on my steering wheel or on my radio; next step, tickets for changing radio settings??
Only time I see this law having any merit or impact, is in injury accidents, and even then when good attorney's get involved there will be plenty of "issues" to be worked out. In terms of everyday impact, I still see absolutely none...
