A couple of things occur to me reading all your comments:

Here in the UK it is illeagal to drive and talk on the phone - unless you have a "hands free" phone! Not that many pay attention to that. Rules are only ever as good as the emforcement capabilities and our police has too few officers with too many other things to do.

Passenger limits in vehicels don't work. They are trying here to make some lanes only for vehicels with 2 or more people ... result: chaos elsewhere ...

And to raise fuel prises to get people to drive less doesn't work too well either. As I said, we pay by now nearly $7.50 per gallon and we still have huge traffic problems (the motorway near here is "affectionally" called "the three lane car park")

Our government wants us to use more public transport BUT ...
We are about to go to our son's wedding party in Manchester. That is about 200 miles from here. On the train it will cost about $200 on the bus a littel more ... in the car just over $50
What do you think we are going to use to go to Manchester?

Anyway... enough of my complaints... we are still envious of your fuel prices