The Police State is right around the corner and coming fast.
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.
Fine with me. I've been hit. Not a good thing to happen when you are zipping along on a highway.
I keep away from all cars with snow/ice on top. Sometimes that innocent snow has a bed of ice under it, and a warm car can send it flying. I especially keep away from any van or truck with a flat top.
If people can't take personal responsibility, then the threat of of $$$$$$$ fine should do it.
Bring it on!.
I live in Alaska and this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Common sense dictates that you clear your windows for visibility, but If your following close enough to be hit by ice or snow falling off a vehicle, you are following too close and deserve it! Of course, most tailgating up here limits itself to the first sudden stop where the offender rear ends the car in front of them. one car length per ten miles an hour really means something on icy roads.
Nope, it's really pro-life conservatism at its best because endangering others because you're too lazy to clear off your car is just plain criminal.
I hope they also crack down on the "peephole" drivers who clear off just a tiny spot on the windshield and never even attempt the side windows.
Hey, not that my state of Florida is PERFECT...but...what are you all doing in Massachusetts about drunken drivers arrested multiple times (Joan Kennedy 4 times)? Shouldn't the MA atty general be concerned about someone who gets repeated probation but continues to drive drunk? And you're worried about SNOW?
Thanks for the article, Westlander..:)
When I see some jerk who is too lazy to have cleared his roof of ice and snow, I back off. OTOH, I do not tailgate.
Why do we need more flippin laws to govern basic common sense? Hey folks, 200 years ago did we need all this sh!'ite?
The way this country is directed, we will need a pass, and pay a fee to drink from a public H2O fountain.
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About time someone made a law for this ( or at least is trying ).
I am so tired of dodging chunks of ice/snow flying from vehicles when I ride my motorcycle in the winter. : )
I wonder if the semi trucks are included in this? They throw off some pretty big pieces !
I bet there will be alot more people late for work on snowy days once this goes into effect......
Mark
But conservatives are the "fascists".
In Mass. soon it will be illegal to eat the burned and blistered skin from the roof of your mouth after taking a bite of too hot pizza.
In most states there already is a law = WRECKLESS DRIVING! Enforce the existing laws!
Well some folks seem to disagree, but in any event I've never been ice struck or even close to it. And the outrage from the little old lady crowd is going to doom this. Why don't the nannies at least have the grace to go at this like they did at seat belts -- first require rooftop de-icers or nonstick teflon coated tops to be furnished on new cars, then at some future time require them to be used. This stuff has got to be waaaaaaaaaaay down on the list of causes of highway carnage.