Eating while driving or drinking coffee from the drive thru? Is that not what reasonable people do, all day every day? Or drinking water. Better, certainly to tend to food and drink while the car is stopped and avoid accidents, but until there are "10 and 2" laws enforced (violating manual transmission user's rights to shift) I will maintain that accidents happen. The penalty is a ticket for the infraction and a fine, not to mention car repairs and civil litigation that the insurance companies will tend to. Eating a sandwich on my way back to work after visiting my sick mother in the hospital should not make me a felon.