With the ever-increasing number of studies highlighting the dangers of using of cell phones while driving, and the reports about fatal collisions, the US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has decided to call a summit on distracted driving, thereby indicating that the Congress should pass the so-called ALERT Drivers Act.

However, even if the Congress passes the Act - the S. 1536 - that would cut transportation funding to states that do not pass texting bans, it would reportedly not be easy to get the drivers to follow such a law.

Already more than half of the US states have outlawed cell phone use in cars, and some have banned texting while driving; but it still has been exceedingly difficult to actually get the drivers round to see the perils of the deadly combination of cell phones and driving.

Nonetheless, a study by the Automobile Club of Southern California has revealed that use of hand-held phones while driving plunged nearly 60 percent in the state, after the law passed in July 2008; and there has been a vivid decrease in traffic accidents coinciding with the law.

With scientific evidence more than proving cell phones make poor driving companions; it is time people educate themselves and their children about the undisputed fact: 'Talking on the phone while driving is a 'bad' idea; texting is a 'really bad' idea!'