California Will ban the Cell phone in Automobiles in 08! - Treo Forums

Stillrockin · 09-19-2006, 05:36 PM

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" . . . .

Kreth · 09-20-2006, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Stillrockin

"But officer, I had my Bluetooth car kit on while I was watching that porno flick from my cell phone" . . . .

*looks around for hidden microphones*

benjie · 09-20-2006, 02:38 PM

Here in the middle of nowhere, most military bases say "NO" to driving and using the cell phone regardless of hands free or not. In order for the driver to use a cell phone in the car, you just have to pull over.

Ben

kdallen · 09-22-2006, 09:11 PM

And now we're not allowed to use them off post, on or off duty

Cofe · 09-23-2006, 11:29 AM

Is it a bad idea, not really. But the reality is that it is no worse than listening to the radio or driving with kids in the backseat. The reality is that there is a group of people who have been affected by drivers who have caused accidents while talking on a cell phone. The goverment has stepped up to please those involved and now they will be making money off of it as well.

What bothers me is when I get pulled over for talking on my cell phone, there are a lot of more important things that the officer could be focusing his or her time on.

LoJac963 · 04-11-2007, 04:07 PM

I was told yesterday that Arizona will be starting a similar law but the initial fine will be $400 not $20

kabeyun · 04-14-2007, 03:18 PM

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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" . . . .

This has actually been New York State law since 2001 (first state to do it) and had been brought up in Assembly since 1996. On the other hand, an interesting study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that you're four times as likely to get into an accident if you're on a cell phone, regardless of whether or not you're using a hand-free device.

-K

cchalkley · 04-23-2007, 11:32 AM

no comment, you should take your drivers test with a bluetooth on kekekeke

blueonblackstrat · 10-15-2007, 10:42 PM

I read that while in the Sprint store, while getting my Q replaced... That's why I'm back...

You have to watch Arizona, they are slippery there. They stand on the over passes, and watch to see if you have your seat belt on...if you don't the buddy down the street, gets the disco lights flashin so the two of you can have a little one on one...

Now, I'll say this, I drive between 3000 and 3600 miles a week. I'm not here to preach...However, when it comes to talking on a cell phone as opposed to listening to the radio... you can't argue with a radio...

KNemesis · 02-07-2008, 11:55 PM

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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