Without a handsfree unit that is. Like NY does, and I heard CA will do come June. If they do, what do you do in this regard if I may ask? We don't have that law in AZ but I'm leaning in favor of it the more I see people eating the Razor Sandwich everywhere I go. I don't know the law but if I got hit by someone I'd want a call log of their cell use to see if they were talking at the time. Now that I have BT I realize how distracting it is to look for/answer the phone in the car and to make calls. Just holding it and talking isn't so bad but if you're doing that you're also answering/calling at some time too.

 

Here in DC it's been a law for over a year now.The police here are known to stand in the street at the city borders(especially Chevy Chase$$) and stop you crossing into the city.Fifty bucks a pop if the phone is on your ear!

 

no. we are the 1st of JULY.

 

Same here in WA!! Glad it's FINALLY coming!! I want to know how to turn people in who are on the phone and doing 35 in a 55!!??
Tonight we saw a woman on the phone almost cause an accident, she changed lanes, no blinker, almost side swiped a vehicle while cutting another vehicle off.
WHERE WERE THE COPS THEN??

 

They did that here in NJ quite a while ago. What is NEW is the police are now allowed to pull you over if they see you on the phone w/o a hands-free set. This went into place I think 1-2 months ago.

 

New Jersey just put a cell phone law in effect about a month ago

 

Did you see the Mythbusters episode on the subject? They tried to navigate a course at a police training ground while talking on a cel phone. They concluded that the problem occurs when you need to think about the conversation. Seems that our minds don't multi-task well. The did almost as poorly on the course while using the cel phone as they did when drunk.

While the no-hands law may help, cel phone users will remain a danger. It will just be more difficult to identify them. Watch out for people alone in cars with their lips moving.

I have the Bluetooth option (Convenience Package) and have used it two or three times in the 11 months I've had the MCS. Mostly, I call while parked and keep the phone turned off while driving.

 

I think this is a great trend; I hope it's enforced, though!

 

So most people quit with the Razr sandwich there I take it? I know I would if it cost me $50/pop. Probably more for a second offense (maybe they confiscate the phone then ).

 

No, they just run you over with the police cruiser. Then nail your hide to a highway sign, as a warning to others.

 

No, but they should. They should also ban construction and the closing if major highways during rush hour.

 

I have no idea about my state but..... I think that and driving in the left lane should be punishable by firing squad. not to get on my soap box but those are my pet peeves.

 

ONLY while doing the speed limit in the left hand land. lol.

 

I'm all for it.

I'd read that some insurance companies ran some tests that showed driving while using the phone was equivalent to driving while legally drunk (.08%).

After ducking, dodging, and dealing with idiots on the phone while driving, I'm leaning toward treating them the same as drunk drivers.

There are a lot of highway deaths that can be laid in the laps of cell phone monkeys.
-skip- (ooo, this should start some flames!)

 

 

I bet this test was done w/ guys only. Women can do like 3-4 things at the same time. Of course driving isn't one of them. Just kidding.

 

nice montage, oxy. would be icing on the cake if we could find him in his hummer on the phone too.

but seriously....... its nice that conv. package has the bluetooth option. but people can just get a parrot installed or use the speakerphone on their cell. the other day i saw a cop on the phone while he was driving (non headset). i wonder if they have to follow it too? i suppose it differs from city to city, because my friend who's an officer for menlo park HAS to use a headset if he wants to be on the phone while on duty.

 

It is not Illinois but the City of Chicago, that has a ban on cell phone use.

I would like to see more of it, myself. But I am not much better. I lost my bluetooth headset and now I hold and talk like the other schmucks!

 

I just got a new phone, it's not a flip, but a data phone, and I had to get a silicon cover so it would sit on my shoulder while I'm driving. I've mastered driving stick and talking on a cell phone, but I keep it to low traffic times, when less people are on the road.

I live in California, and I'm definitely holding out until it's a law to get a hands free device. Most of the time I use speaker phone or just wait until I'm at my destination. I was a lot more careless when I drove an automatic, but now with a manual shift, I stay off the phone a lot more. No matter what the transmission, I still see people that shouldn't be talking and driving.

 

I hope we get it here. I wish it would be a moving
violation though, that effected the insurance.

I've been rear ended twice in two years by cellphone
talkers. One of those times cost me a reserve
officer retirement pension, months out of work on
my day job, (no need to finish the list, but it is
extensive)....

For a while I was tooting and giving the finger to
cellphone talkers....but then i realized the only
difference it made was that my arm got REALLY tired.

 

Last year I had two people hit me on my motorcycle. One turned left in front of me and the other pulled out in front of me. Both we using their cell phones. I have sold my motorcycles and now drive a 07 MCS.

 

None here yet.

Maybe they should only allow people who are designated as organ donors
on their license to use cell phones while driving. Couple this with a system
that disables the driver airbags when a cell phone is being used.
Doesn't solve the problem of what happens to other poor souls they crash into, though.

 

Not in N.C. yet, but I would support it. There is not a day that goes by that I don't see at least one (usually many more) person pull a completely BONEHEAD move while their cell phone is attached to said ear....

 

Yep, I saw it. I can attest, first hand, that talking on the cell while driving is very dangerous. I consider myself a safe and defensive driver; however, I was talking on my cell phone one day while driving and changing lanes and nearly collided with a car in the other lane. It was in plain sight but I totally missed it!! Had the other driver not been on their horn, I'd have run right into them. I avoid talking on the phone while driving now. It's just not safe <period> and should be a ticket-able offense.

 

Actually it was done with one man, one woman. As alluded to earlier, the conclusion was equal to drunk when discussing things that are mentally involved. Here's the problem I had with the test. The conversation was about things like 'what is 427 times 28?'. As a result, I'm not sure it's the cell phone that's involved here. It's the conversation. I'd like to see the test re-done without the cell phone, but a passenger asking the same kinds of questions of the driver. There is the fact tho that cell phones are causing/enabling people to have involved/complex conversations all the time. If the conversation is just stuff like 'are you on your way home?' then I think we get a whole different driving performance rating.

back to the subject: Here in Texas, no state law yet and I don't expect one any time soon, but cities are starting to pass these laws. Most notably they are doing it for school zones (even though NO ONE has been injured in a school zone due to cell phone use). More attempts by the law to regulate our lives. Lawful people don't need a law to behave responsibly. Unlawful people won't care if there is a law or not. And finally, there's so few police out there that no one expects to ever get ticketed over a cell phone law. When 190 (a freeway in Dallas) was opened, you used to have to go over 100 MPH to attract enough attention just to get ticketed (now the freeway is so clogged up in rush hour you can't get up to the speed limit).