LOOKING AHEAD

EDITOR: Regarding your front-page article on Friday about cell phone use

while driving: I'm all for hands-free devices and don't understand why it took

so long to get the law. It's common sense.

One day a woman was in the car behind me, too close, and she had a cell

phone up to her ear and then she took her other hand off the steering wheel to

gesture, so no hands on the wheel.

As for the argument some people make about phones not to be used at all

while driving, I disagree. After all, don't you talk to your passengers?

And then there are the drivers who feel the need to turn around to talk to

the passenger beside them or in the back seat. Think about that. I'd rather

use my headset and have both hands on the wheel and be looking straight ahead.

NANCY WAGNER

Rohnert Park