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Nevada, New York consider using 'textalyzer' in distracted driving accident investigations
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| Mar 20, 2019
| AP, via FoxNews.com
Posted on 03/20/2019 1:19:30 PM PDT by ETL
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:19:30 PM PDT
by
ETL
Something similar needs to be done for equally stupid pedestrians.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:19:40 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
When will the enact the “10&2” act? You know where’s it’s against the law to have your hands anywhere else on the steering wheel.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:24:20 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: ETL
what about people looking at map feature or obeying gps that has them turning at last minute or lead you to block walls or such that cause problems with drivers other than texting? what about people trying to deal with kids in back seat while driving, putting on make-up, shaving, eating, all sorts of things people do while driving.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:26:54 PM PDT
by
b4me
(God Bless the USA)
To: ETL
[Most states ban texting behind the wheel, but a legislative proposal could make Nevada one of the first states to allow police to use a contentious technology to find out if a person was using a cellphone during a car crash.]
Cool story bro, but that would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment....
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:29:15 PM PDT
by
ObozoMustGo2012
("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
To: rktman
Due to airbags its now 8 and 4 or 7 & 5. I still drive one handed at 6, or 12 or with both hands at 10 & 2, unless of course I’m eating and then I use my left knee.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:29:22 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: b4me
How ‘bout when I am driving and my wife is using the phone?
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:33:09 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: ETL
If the Nevada measure passes, it would allow police to use a device known as the “textalyzer,” which connects to a cellphone and looks for user activity, such as opening a Facebook messenger call screen.
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Great idea. Except for that pesky fourth amendment thingie requiring a search warrant.
To: Blue Jays
"...distracted driving..."
The countless people texting, videoconferencing, and Facebooking (while driving) convinced me to reconsider motorcycling on main roads. Talk about a national emergency. It is out of control.
The fact that many states are also seemingly comfortable with allowing potholes to develop that are 10-12 with no urgency to repair them compounds the issue. So lulled drivers slam into them and lose control and/or force others into the potholes because they are too immersed in their mobile phones.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:34:21 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: ETL
I see Cops in Los Angeles Texting and Driving almost every day, they don’t like it when I say something to them though.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:37:16 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: Responsibility2nd; ETL
-—our nearly all-girl legislature is controlled completely by the Demotraitors-—no worry about anything as outmoded as the Constitution——
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:42:08 PM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: ETL
Walmart...20 dollar prepay phone. Use very rarely and only away from car. Main use... handing to cop at accident scene.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:42:14 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: All
No search without a warrant - thanks anyway.
I am, however, in favor of 25 strokes with a cane for the first offense, 50 for the second, and death for the third.
It is called depraved indifference.
I’m not joking either.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:44:12 PM PDT
by
TheTimeOfMan
(A time for peace and a time for war)
To: pfflier
if it distracts you i guess she’s helping you have a problem driving....
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:46:17 PM PDT
by
b4me
(God Bless the USA)
To: Blue Jays
Yep...once I was riding down an interstate. I saw 4 cage drivers in a row doing bad stuff. A dude eating a burrito, the next car, a chick texting, a chick putting on makeup in a sunshade mirror, and a dude with a BOOK open on the steering wheel.
If you motorcycle, they ALL really are trying to kill you.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:46:59 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: TheTimeOfMan
I assume it falls under the same exception as the breathalizer — you can say no, but then the law will assume you are guilty, and you will be charged accordingly.
To: ETL
“Something similar needs to be done for equally stupid pedestrians.”
Darwin continues to thin out this herd.
The real safety problem is when texting drivers take out other drivers and pedestrians.
A couple of days ago, a woman is like a sister to my wife, told us that her former business partner was struck by an apparent texting woman while driving.
The texter/other driver, whose vehicle was in the wrong lane, hit the non texting woman’s car head on and knocked the vehicle into the drainage ditch. The victim had several broken bones and will take weeks to recover.
The victims new car was totaled.. The EMTs told her that her vehicle saved her life with its internal safety devices.
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posted on
03/20/2019 1:58:20 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(I guess with John McCain & Benedict Arnold being dead, Faux News had to settle for Ryan!!!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Implied consent. One Supreme court decision is all it will take.
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posted on
03/20/2019 2:15:30 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: ETL
If the Nevada measure passes, it would allow police to use a device known as the "textalyzer," which connects to a cellphone and looks for user activity, such as opening a Facebook messenger call screen.
And how does it access the phone without being unlocked? My phone only gives a recharge option, unless I unlock the phone, and set the usb to drive access instead of power-only.
And once in, how does it record the evidence for court? Does it print out a receipt that says "there was activity recently", or does it actually say what and when that activity was? (Despite not collecting any user data...?) If the person refuses to allow phone access, how does this information do anything if the police need a warrant and the phone isn't 'textalyzed' until hours or days after the incident?
To: ObozoMustGo2012
4th amendment rights!? 😆😆😆😆. Breath, 😆😆😆
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posted on
03/20/2019 2:16:03 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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