I have yet to have any traffic violations or accidents or near accidents or scares.
Maybe you did, but you just didn't see the near-accident b/c the other driver was already in the ditch by the time you looked up from the phone
Seriously though, these laws are not made and put into place b/c every single driver is a problem. They are put into place because many or most drivers are incapable of multitasking (depending on where you are driving, the NEED for attention on the road is different, ex. open freeway vs Raleigh NC traffic), and the costs associated with mistakes while texting are FAR greater than implementing/enforcing the law.
And even if many people haven't had near-accidents, I can't tell you how many times over the past two years that I have had to lay down on my car horn because the light turned green and the person in front of me just sat there.... and may have never looked up on their own!
In fact, 4 days ago that happened when trying to make a left turn at a light. The woman in the car in front of me (she was about 4or5 cars back) had her head down. The light turned green and the cars all pulled out from in front of her, and she didn't move... So I laid on the horn, then after a 2-3 second delay she hits the gas and runs straight out through the yellow light while flipping ME off!! I'm just left there thinking WTF!? The funny thing is, I think I remember seeing something like that in a movie... I think it was a Bruce Willis flick.
Anyways, hands and eyes free would be pretty sweet if it were a little more practical, but you just can't trust anyone else when it comes to regular texting and driving. Personally, I'm happy to give up texting while driving if it means that, if the woman in front of me had been caught, she would have been punished to the equivalent of a DUI. But I'm still looking into practical hands free and TTS and STT... though the best I have found is an app that does TTS (so I immediately get the message) and sends an auto-response letting the other person know that I am driving and if they need me to respond that they can call.