I do not need Big Brother minding what I do while walking.  If a person is not paying attention and gets run over whose fault is it.
The trouble with our politicians is that they think that passing another law is going to solve something they see as a problem.
I suspect that if you do a post mortem on each pedestrian accident, you will probably find that few if any were run over while using an
electronic device. Many were people who were not paying attention to traffic and stepped into the roadway thinking they had the right
of way or were in a crosswalk so they were protected somehow.  We have all seen people like this who are oblivious to their 
surroundings and are an accident waiting to happen.