I'm not saying it is not a good idea, but enforcement would be close to impossible. The officer could see the phone held to your ear, but not the hands free. Maybe the person was singing not talking. If the are allowed to have your service check to see if you are on the phone, while they watch, I believe that is just a bit too "big brother" to my liking. Hand held phones have been outlawed in MD for a couple of months now. Not only do I still see drivers using them, but I followed a MD State Trooper yesterday who talking away with his phone to his ear. New laws are great, if they are reasonably enforceable. Jim
Heh, should of used your phone to take a picture for proof and then pull the Trooper over citing him for breaking the laws.
If the federal government gets involved it would be pretty easy to enforce. They would do it through your carrier. Via signal triangulation it would be easy to tell if the cellphone was in operation while moving. A simple software change to shut down the phone operation whenever the phone was in motion. Stop moving and the phone works..... Easy squeezy.......
And if it does happen, it will be widely ignored. People want the rule to be applied to everybody else, not themselves. Passengers? Bus/train/taxi riders?
Texting while driving is illegal in GA. I will say I am guilty of doing it but never in motion if its something I can respond to quickly at a red light I will, other wise I can't while driving as both my hands are occupied. what they need to get on here in GA is people doing their make-up while driving can't tell you how many times I want to slam on my brakes and watch the lady behind me jab her eye with her mascara(is that the stuff they use around their eyes?)
Erps...... That would raise a little ire wouldn't it. Haha Hey, what did you expect? Government mandate. Yup, Planes, Trains and Automobiles.....
Yes it will be widely ignored. I for one will gladly abide by it as I do not use the phone while I drive. If I get a call I let it go to voice mail or let my passenger handle the call. Yep one of my strange habits.
It is very rare I take a call when driving. I always found it distracting. When someone gives me grief over not taking their call when they know I was driving I remind them that my MINI is too loud to hear them and give them the attention they require. Text and drive...I can't type that fast, it'll never happen.
What if you are the passenger in the car and using your phone, software could not distinguish if you were driver or passenger..
No one should ever try to drive while being DISTRACTED. This being the key word. You can be distracted by the lovely lass walking on the sidewalk, by the radio talk show idiot caller, by the big suddenly very interesting billboard. These all can and have caused accidents. They should simply add a new crime.......accident by distraction. If you have an accident and they can prove you were distracted then it becomes a more severe penalty. But to try and enforce something that can be very easily hidden from view is a defense attorneys wet dream. I routinely use my cell phone while driving, BUT if I feel like I need to stop and continue the conversation to be safe I most definitely do pull over.
I'm not competent enough shift, steer, hold a phone up to my ear and chew gum at the same time. I ain't giving up the gum...
LOL neither am I. I never try to use my cell phone while driving a manual car, but my work truck is an automatic.....so there is that.
I see people texting all the time and wandering all over the road. As bad as drunk drivers in my opinion.
OK, so let's see if we can put it all in perspective: Gas-clutch-6 speed-brake-steering, commuter traffic, In-N-Out Burger and Fries, playin' air guitar while listening to a fav classic rock station, surf'n the i-phone aps, Sweetheart in the passenger seat talkin' 'bout who knows what, stress'n over not spill'n a cold beer between the legs... and now I can't talk on the phone anymore!!! Geeze man, that's where I got'ta draw the line with government intervention. :lol:
Good luck with that one, from 17 to 20 my daughter was on another planet, I kept telling her she had her head up Uranus... :crazy: