Ticket for Cell phone in California

When I get in the vehicle, the BT set is on and is handy. I get a call, I put it on. Call ends, I take it off. Simple.

Maybe folks can't afford a $40 headset with the car payments, insurance, gas etc.

You can get one for $20 at Walmart in the states. Granted it may not work as well as a more expensive one. Also I was at a Big Lots and saw stereo headphones with a mic for $5. It would work with any phone that had the 3.5mm or 2.5mm headphone jack. Of course if your phone has no headphone jack it will not work.

I'm talking about MOR.

This is exactly what I do, pull off somewhere before using the phone. Today I found a nice empty parking lot to use.

Shame the left lane is full of people on the phone oblivious to the driving that is going on around them.

Yeah I can't say I have a problem with this either. A friend of a friend was killed by someone who was distracted by his cellphone.

I've had enough of distracted drivers swerving into my lane and failing to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks.

Of course, I'll be more than a might peeved if I get ticketed for using my GPS.

Outlawing Stupidity.

Then no one would be stupid anymore.

You just can't legislate common sense. One day the unwashed masses in the Kommie state of Kalif will learn this lesson. Glad I left there.

I hold out no hope for them.

Move to Texas, everyone else is, almost.

Only problem with that suggestion is that I would then be in Texas.

and how is this any different from fiddling with a phone. I drove to work with one hand on the wheel today. And most people reading this have driven with one hand before. I don't think it mattered what my other hand was doing, as long as my focus stayed on the road. Can someone please tell me why I can drive with one hand on the wheel, but as soon as that other hand is holding a phone, it is illegal?

ABSURD!

If you can stay focused on the road, then I would have no problem with it. I must admit that I answer my phone while driving (if I decide I need to make a call, I pull over and stop).

However, my experience is that people who tailgate me are almost always talking on their phone. They do not seem to realize how close they have gotten to my vehicle, which implies to me that they are not "focused" on the road, but rather on their phone call.

I recall a Mythbusters episode where they tested using cellphones while driving and concluded that a persons driving ability was significantly impaired.

see link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity

there are literally tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands on laws on the books. Most are needed to cover off the stupid things people do, the people who don't have common sense to protect themselves or others.

Ironically, these laws are doing more and more to protect these stupid people from their timely demise, thus thwarting natures culling of less 'fit' species.

Stupid people get to live longer, have kids, who often continue in their parents stupid ways - thus requiring more laws to protect the species.

we have same cell phone law here.. statewide, you can read texting, but you CAN'T type.. hard to clear of it if got caught. So, I always keep away from reach of mobile phone when driving. Glad that I have BT on my NUVI 670 which works.

It's because almost every day some freaking jacka$$ darn near hits me while coming off the freeway with their phone stuck to their ear. They invariably have their left hand holding the phone to their head and don't seem to be able to see that there is someone on the left of their car. They try to merge directly into me.

Given my way, I'd have a button that would vaporize them and their cars. I'm sooooooooooooooooooooo freaking sick of these idiots who drive around yakking on the phone. I was almost hit by one again last night.

Driving around with a jammer to block the signal could help as well. Just about every day I almost get hit, not a big fan of it.

Compared to the few countries I have driven in, the US has been the worst overall. Canada has been the best.

Using a jammer is illegal in the US. In a lot of areas it will get you quickly noticed by your local law enforcement officer as many of their radio systems operate close to the cellular frequencies.

I recently had a friend killed in a traffic accident. He was stuck in standstill traffic when a car slammed him from the rear setting off a chain reaction crash killing my Friend his passenger and a back seat passenger in the car in front of him and the driver that hit him. The accident report showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in her system, but every witness said the driver was talking on her cellphone

Also as a taxpayer I bet when factoring in the time of the officer, the processing of the ticket by the court and DMV, the time of a bailiff or two, court clerk and recorder, and the judge all add up to cost far more than the $20 fine. Even if it means tacking on added fees I would rather the person who violated the law cover the full cost of his transgression than law abiding citizens paying any portion of it.

I know it is illegal here in the US, but wish it were possible though. I should have specified, I wasn't in the US at the time.

Probably at the donut shop having breakfast.

But seriously, I don't believe it's the talking that's dangerous, it's the driving with one hand. I was setting in the car waiting for my wife and a lady that was parked nose to nose with me came out and got in her car, the first thing she did was pull out the cell phone and make a call then it took her forever to get out of the stall because she had to keep switching hands with the phone.

My wife says I'm sexist but from my observations I think the group that has the most cell phone usage while driving is women in the teen to maybe the early thirtys.