The amount of people I see daily playing on their phones while driving on the interstate

Its completely out of hand.

Just on my 30 minute each way daily commute, I see 3-6 people on the I10 totally focused on their phones while doing 60mph. Actually a lot of them are going much slower than 60, since they're not paying enough attention to realize they're going below the speed limit.

And you can always tell who's on their phone:

-slowly drifting into the lane next to them then jerking back into their own lane when they finally glance up from their phone

-constantly tapping on their brakes just in case the car in front of them slows down, but they can't be bothered to pull their eyes from the phone for long enough to see if in fact the car in front of them is slowing down

-driving slow in the left lane with a mile long line of cars behind them because they are too oblivious to realize they are fricking up everyone else's commute

Just today, I was getting onto the interstate, and the lady in front of me was going so slow, I had to basically stop on the on ramp and wait for traffic to clear up, because I couldn't accelerate to interstate speed with her in front of me. She was so oblivious, she drove onto the shoulder for a bit before she realized she wasn't on the road anymore. When I passed her - becasue she was still driving like 35mph on the interstate - she was still completely engaged with her phone.

Not 10 minutes later, I was on a state highway, and I had to make a left turn. I'm in the left hand lane, with my blinker on, and as I'm slowing down I notice in my rearview mirror a pickup truck behind me isn't slowing down at all. I have to swerve onto the left shoulder at this point and almost wound up on the grass on the neutral ground. The truck, at the last second swerves into the right hand lane once he noticed me. For a brief instant before he swerved, I could see in my mirror this grown arse man looking at his phone.

I know Louisiana recently passed yet another useless law that doesn't actually stop people from playing on their phones while driving.

It really needs to be made criminal where if you're caught on your phone while driving, you're arrested, your car is impounded and you face jail time.

And the police need to do a way better job of policing this. If cops were actually proactive about fighting crime, instead of waiting on the side of the interstate for it to come to them, they’d quickly fill their ticket books.

And that's my rant for the day.