New Year, New Laws For Motorists(Heads Up, Californians!)

orange county register ^ | January 6, 2008 | SERENA MARIA DANIELS and MICHAEL MELLO

[kellynla]

Another new year, another list of new laws affecting California motorists.

This year's batch includes restrictions on cell phone use, a law making it easier for vehicle owners to replace lost keys, and a prohibition of smoking in vehicles that contain minors.

Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Anaheim, voted against two bills that will go into effect this year.

"It starts to cross over to a nanny state when law enforcement officials are trying to regulate every aspect of everyone's lives," Spitzer said of the smoking ban.

Similarly, Spitzer voted against the cell phone restriction, which will require motorists to use hands-free devices, beginning in July.

"We were pushing for a bill that would go after distracted drivers, not just cell phone users," Spitzer said.

[kellynla]

"License plates Makes it illegal to use or sell products that obstruct the view of license plates. Violators include those who put tint on plates so that red-light cameras can't capture the plate number."

Which means that those products must really work! LOL

[org.whodat]

Which means that those products must really work! LOL

Mythbusters tried them all a few shows back, nothing beat the camera.

[kinoxi]

Happy New Year from the ‘state’ of Maryland.

[martin_fierro]

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[piytar]

Starts to become a nanny state?! Cali IS a nanny state, which is why productive citizens are fleeing in reord numbers. Problem is they then proceed to bring the nanny state mentality to other states...

[HAL9000]

"Flash me, I'm bored"

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[Hoplite]

Traffic laws are for the poor unwashed masses who don’t have access to the secret subterranean freeway system.

[JRios1968]

Ssshhhhhh

[martin_fierro]

I was bored.

Now I'm just disgusted.

[uglybiker]

Hey mistah truck drivin' man!
You into haulin' some heavy freight?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Now I'm just disgusted.

Lucky you, I'm now blind.;)

[martin_fierro]

[Gondring]

Mythbusters tried them all a few shows back, nothing beat the camera.

Actually, they beat the camera by going 245 mph. :-)

But they didn't seem to test at night...so perhaps the filters would work then.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Brainwash Station.

[weegee]

Traffic laws are just a commuter tax. The more laws they pass, the more likely you are to be found guilty of some crime (like having a dealer affixed frame around your license plate).

[Clemenza]

Traffic laws = revenue.

[ZGuy]

I keep waiting for the day when some politician will run for office with a major platform being that he/she will seek to repeal all of the nanny-state laws that are on the books.