Texting is incredibly dangerous. I have seen more people doing this weaving all over the road. Same goes for applying makeup.
I guess while driving in their fair city I had better curtail my dashboard keyboard playing.
An amazingly broad vaguely worded law that will in essence
allow an LEO to pull you over for virtually any reason
whatsoever for the express purpose of stealing $25 from you.
Political hacks that came up and voted for this BS should be
tarred, feathered then hung. It’s way past time for the
ego driven bastards that infest public office to start
fearing the people.
Talking to a passenger in the car is “distracting”, having children in the car is “distracting”, bill boards are “distracting”, idiots in other cars are distracting, a pretty girl walking down the street is distracting - when will this stop?
I guess we should ban all sound and other passengers from the vehicle, etc. Anything can be a distraction that hurts or even kills - accidents happen with bikes, scooters, horses, heck, even walking. I guess the “safe” thing is to not travel anywhere.
You can’t make everything thing “safe” without taking away liberty of movement and travel. Lawyers are the real winners in these things.
Do it. Make everything illegal.
In fact, ban children from the car.
Shouldn’t be distracted with GPS. Take it out.
Shouldn’t be distracted with an annoying passenger like a whinny person saying “we are lost”, “you are driving to fast” (always cracks me as I watch cars go flying by), “Why don’t you just pass this idiot and why are you in the slow lane. Don’t you know how to drive? (Cracks me up again, from the same person who complained about driving to fast.)
“Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera”
Shouldn’t be distracted with kids in the car. Leave them home.
All wipers should be federal mandated to have laser on them so they wipe as needed and you don’t have to figure out what speed to put them on or where the “turn on switch thingy is”.
No cute toys or ornaments any where near the front window, on the dashboard or hanging from a mirror. (Sorry bobble head Chihuahua)
No cute toys or ornaments any where near the back window, on the deck or stickers. (Again, sorry bobble head Chihuahua)
No stickers on the side windows (impairs your view)
No dry cleaning hanging from anywhere in the car. Makes noise and impairs your view.
No ashtray, no smoking, no eating and drinking anything in the car (you should have both hands on the wheel at all times, in the 10 and 2 O’clock positions.
No putting on lipstick or make up ever and no shaving.
No more vanity mirrors, you shouldn’t be looking at anything but the road.
No pets ever. Never know what they are going to do.
Exceptions:
Police -
3 to 5 radio channels transmitting information all the time, computer sending info all the time, GPS sending info all the time, they can talk on radio and switch to secure channels, Cell phone use is frequent.They do have drinks in car; have to look at license plates as they travel down the road, look for people in distress, look for crime, look for infractions, etc.
Truck Drivers -
CB is allowed, GPS is allowed, and Radio is allowed, pets in the front seat or back of cab, lunch, dinner and snacks. Cooler for their drinks and yes drinks, Cell phone, a bunch more dials of information to ensure the truck and trailer are running correctly.
Airline Pilots -
Just look at all that crap in the cockpit! How do they do it?
As long as "everyone" is a REVENUE sucking, non producing, over compensated, socialist, union government employee.
Pretty soon you will be cited for looking at your side mirrors as distracted driving. Then these yahoos will wonder why accidents are increasing.
The good and the bad all mixed together. This is so vaguely worded that it is a ticket for anything, a great revenue raiser and the driver can’t defend against it. You looked at the parked police car as you drove by - distracted - ticket, etc.
While I do think Texting definitely needs to be banned, one MUST keep in mind the mindset of the nanny-staters.
You people out there don’t have to believe me, and if so, that’s your problem, but facts are facts, so you’ll, eventually, discover that I’m right about what I’m going to say, which is the following:
The Nanny-Staters DESPISE the idea of a person driving their own car, particularly if they are going where they want, and when they want. They can just barely handle people driving themselves if they get permission from the state - basically register to take a trip, and then go where they’re authorized (that’s why Rick Perry and other governors are trying so hard to get GPS into people’s cars, for the purpose of tolling based on where people drive, when they drive, what they drive, and maybe how much money they make).
As to distracted driving - they see the legitimate case against text-messaging as a way to make driving, overall, as MISERABLE as possible (so as to minimize the number of people driving alone - and then to minimize where they go - try to imagine a road trip without eating or drinking in the car and you’ll understand that). Once you go into the world of distracted driving - you open a HUGE can of worms, and you CAN BET they know that. So what’s distracting when a person drives - yes listening to the radio, talking to the wife, talking to the dog, talking to your kids, thinking about something other than what’s ahead of you on the road, etc.
Again, mark my words, you don’t have to agree with my description of what the left thinks about driving in general, but you will later, probably in the near future.