is this a serious comment?

 

i got pulled over st patties day...while texting (only car on the road at 10pm on the toll road). he just wanted to see if I was drunk, because I switched lanes into the slow lane because he was halling azz. I didnt signal.

anyways he said as of today (st. p day) its against the law in MD. I said well thank God we are in VA

he said, we are getting it soon!

July 1st.

There was a study conducted about using the phone, phone with ear piece, or texting...and it concluded that while doing those and driving you have the reaction time of an 80 year old man.

its not the physical activity, its the mental distraction. Even if you have a hands free phone... the brain can be in two places at the same time.

im glad its getting passed, because I have a bad habbit of talking on the phone in general, but I am so paranoid about my car i ignor people on the phone and pay more attention to the road, but still this is a good thing.

sad us ricers now have another reason to get stopped, then once they check out the car, exhaust, tint, front licenses plate tickets come.

VA FTL

 

Well, this is good to know... thanks!

...not a fan of tickets....

 

how you been? 'homie'?

 

I fully agree, people shouldn't be txting while driving, but that's not the issue I have, someone touched on phones with GPS. guess what? no more! this just opens a big can of worms for giving tickets out that could very easily be BS.

You look at your phone to see the map and where to turn next... bam, red/blue lights behind you.

No more phone GPS.

Same goes looking at directions, whos to say the officer wont buy that they are not something you keep in the car to cover up txting? oh, but officer I was reading my directions...

As to the talking on the phone part. are you saying we all need to stop having passengers or just that we need to make a rule of no talking when driving?

Should people stop txting? YES! making it a law wont do anything more then cause people to HIDE the fact that they're txting.

 

Who are still allowed to drive at that age. So I guess its not so bad after all...

Although I think that oldies are a real threat out there.


But getting back to topic. What is the difference between talking with an earpiece and talking with your passenger?

I guess that law is next like on the bus: "Dont talk with the driver"

 

Good point, I wonder if they would bend the rules for such applications.

 

how can you "bend" rules? Again, it opens up a big can of warms for lots of BS tickets. What sucks is its always going to be your word VS the officer, it's a lose lose. You will not win in court if the officer shows up. on top of that is it worth the time even if you know you will win? If you get a ticket in the mail for $75.00 for running a red light that clearly isn't you or your car, do you take a day off work to go into court and fight it?

 

Because having a hand-held device such as a cell phone and an actual GPS is the same thing. If we get pulled over for using cell phone's GPS, we can get pulled over for using a regular GPS.

Again, you're right. It does "open up a big can of worms" that is unnecessary. Then again, its VA =P.

 

Most people can't drive let alone text and drive!

 

i have a problem with making new laws for stuff they can already write tickets. They said already they wrote tickets for "not paying full attention". Why can't they just continue to do that? does it require yet ANOTHER law on the books for an officer to decide you weren't paying attention?

it drives me nuts when i see people not paying attention. I don't understnade how it's hard to drive while TALKING on the phone but apparently it's very hard for a lot of soccer mom's because they almost run into me all the time.

I think this law is going to cause a lot of BS tickets also. The officer has it out for some reason on people and decides to write you a ticket for it. How are you going to fight that?

Again, i'd rather them enforce the laws they have then make new laws that they will enforce strictly for the first year then let it fall on the back burner like all the others.

 

haha i've been good! Still wish i coulda made it to that bbq... sounded fun, sorry i couldn't make it

Lemme know when anything else comes up, k?