[jyl]

As voice control, e.g. Apple's Siri, gets better, texting won't require looking at or typing on the phone. You'll be able to speak and send texts, and to hear texts read to you, with the phone in your pocket.

At that point voice texting will be similar to a hands free phone conversation, or a conversation with a passenger, as far as distraction goes.

That level of distraction is okay with me. Some people are such bad drivers that they can't talk and drive, but I think they'd be bad drivers regardless. Most people, I think but admittedly based on no data, can talk and drive at the same time.

So, the thing is for anti texting laws to be written narrowly, so that they don't affect the use of future voice texting technologies.