Posted on 09/15/2005 8:35:32 PM PDT by Westlander
BOSTON -- It's cold, it's snowing, and there's ice and snow on the car. So you hop in and go without clearing off all the winter precipitation.
That might soon be against the law in Massachusetts.
The state Legislature is considering a bill that would mean fines of up to $500 and a six-month stay in jail.
The bill is designed to reduce the danger from chunks of snow and ice flying off car roofs or hoods.
If it passes, Massachusetts could become the first state to require snow- and ice-free cars.
It's already the law in VA.
I see cars like that on the road and I stay away from them.
I don't need the government to micromanage my life.
Drunk aside, getting nailed with a chunk of ice from the guy in front of you sucks.
I was never struck by ice flying off a car but I do remember from my time up north that many drivers would only do the windshield, leaving the brake lights covered. Even if they cleaned off the brake lights, the snow would slide off the trunk and cover them. That was more of a hazard percentage-wise than a high-speed deicing on the highway.
To assure it's clean, you must change it every 2 hours.
To be able to check, you'll have to wear underwear on the outside.
Liberals are a disease on society.
Being behind a blizzard from a Camry when it hasnt snowed in two days is never fun, but a 500 dollar fine?
Another tax revenue scam from the blood-sucking leeches.
Politicians should be fined $5,000 everytime they open their yaps and propose something stupid.
I've got a great idea -- since we should all be so smart and alert about our surroundings on the road, why not just design substandard highways and let people figure out how to drive on them by trial and error?
It doesn't collect on the roof and harden while you're driving.
As someone who almost had a serious accident on the highway because of a large sheet of ice that flew off the roof of the car car in front of me and hit my windshield they should do something.
The chunk had probably been there for a couple of days and it was rock hard.
I also saw a woman driving when the entire sheet of ice from her roof slid forward and she could see NOTHING.
Some states already have this requirement for trucks and buses. A chunk of ice flying off the roof of a car can cause a lot of damage to your vehicle . . . a chunk of ice falling off the top of an 18-wheeler can be deadly.
Some of you don't realize that when ice flies off the back of a car on the freeway, it has the potential to break a windshield. It has happened here in WA causing a major accident.
Plus, if you don't clean the ice off your windshield, how are you able to see where you're going? If you don't clean it off your mirrors, how are you able to back up.
Of course, if you're fortunate enough to have a garage, all you have to do is scrape the driveway.
Ever try to walk on "black ice"? I have...didn't work.
This is already a ticketable offense here in the mountains of California where vacationing skiers delight in driving home with four feet of snow on the roof of their vehicles.
When are they going to pull Ted Kennedy's drivers license?
And I really don't give a sh!t what the Americans with Disabilities Act has to say about that.
The Police State is right around the corner and coming fast.
They should do something----it's a hazard as I said in my previous post.
It's time to have the Massachusetts legislators eat yellow snow! Those folks are lunatics!
Dilberts who can't prepare their cars for the road should stick to the T...
I personally love watching the stuff slide off the car ahead and do a star burst when it hits the pavement, usually a few feet behind the car ahead.
I've never seen this stuff hit another car. If it hits your car, you are way too close and traveling at a very high speed.
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