Look Ma, No Hands
The hands-free cell phone law for drivers just took effect in California. It doesn't matter to me since I don't talk on the phone in my car. But it makes me wonder just how far they might go to cut down on accidents. Anything that distracts you can cause trouble--eating, drinking, smoking, listening to the radio. Will we be fined for those things?
Also, will this new law make people more likely to text while driving?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:26 AM
3 Comments:
How about reporting on bad drivers?
Despite the rhetoric, the "hands free" rule seems to be focused mostly on having both hands on the wheel (and I think it would apply to texting), not attention spans and drivers continue to have the right to be distracted by headsets, radio, CD/MP3s, eating, daydreams and sexual fantasies and human intercourse generally while driving.
They recently updated the New York law to also outlaw texting while driving. There were a few highly-publicized high speed teenager crashes that occurred while texting.
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