Thursday, July 03, 2008

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?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about reporting on bad drivers?

12:39 AM, July 03, 2008  
Blogger New England Guy said...

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.

6:07 AM, July 03, 2008  
Blogger QueensGuy said...

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.

1:53 PM, July 03, 2008  

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