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Originally Posted by Stillrockin  I read the other day that effective 1/1/08, if your not using an in car device (Bluetooth) with your Cell phone, you will be breaking California State Law! First offenders get a $20 fine, and 2nd + offenders get a $50 one . . . I can’t argue there are some real cell phone idiots out there. I have encountered them and then on occasion I have probably been labeled as one. Bluetooth might help the situation some, but it doesn’t make it that much safer . . . CD players, Radios, Eating, putting on make-up, are all distractions that shouldn’t take place behind the wheel of a car! The problem is, is that we get by with these distractions more often than we don’t and we get used to dealing with them, . . . . . . . Sooner or later we make the wrong decision to be distracted at the wrong time . . With a BT car kit or a headset, we are still distracted. My prediction: This is going to be more common as we go forward. I expect many more states to put band aid approach legislation in effect thinking they are addressing the problem . .
But , using BlueTooth technology only barely helps the conversation aspect. No law adequately addresses using your phone as an email device, or listening to music or videocasts, or streaming audio/Video, etc while driving down the road and I promise, those idiots are just around the corner . . . I can see it now . . . "But officer, I had my Bluetooth car kit on while I was watching that porno flick from my cell phone" . . . . |
The Law is actually effective July 2008. and a weird thing about it, the law has a line item within it so that it repeals itself three years after the law being effective.
-KNem