Posted on 03/20/2019 1:19:30 PM PDT by 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.
The measure is igniting privacy concerns and has led lawmakers to question the practicality of the technology, even while acknowledging the threat of distracted driving.
The future of the Nevada proposal isn't clear. A similar measure introduced in 2017 failed in the New York Legislature, but lawmakers are considering it again.
Law enforcement officials argue that distracted driving is underreported and that weak punishments do little to stop drivers from texting, scrolling or otherwise using their phones.
Adding to the problem, they say there is no consistent police practice that holds those drivers accountable for traffic crashes, unlike drunken driving.
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.
It is made by Israel-based company Cellebrite, which says the technology does not access or store personal content.
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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.
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.
[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....
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.
How ‘bout when I am driving and my wife is using the phone?
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.
"...distracted driving..."
I see Cops in Los Angeles Texting and Driving almost every day, they don’t like it when I say something to them though.
-—our nearly all-girl legislature is controlled completely by the Demotraitors-—no worry about anything as outmoded as the Constitution——
Walmart...20 dollar prepay phone. Use very rarely and only away from car. Main use... handing to cop at accident scene.
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.
if it distracts you i guess she’s helping you have a problem driving....
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.
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.
“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.
Implied consent. One Supreme court decision is all it will take.
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