June 24, 2008

• http://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellularphonelaws/index.htm

  Well California, are you ready? On July 1st, 2008, the new Cellular Phone law goes into effect. This is the direct result of lousy bad drivers who can’t control their vehicles properly, because they were on their cell phone while driving. With this new law, people are suppose to get the incentive to use “hand free” devices or simply don’t drive while on the cell phone unless it is an emergency. The penalty however is kind of weak, in that the first offense is $20 and $50 for subsequent convictions. With the addition of
  penalty assessments, the fines can be more than triple the base fine
  amount. I don’t know about you, but in terms of money, that’s not really putting the fear on people to care about the penalty fee. This is a little bit more of an issue with kids under the age of 18 though, because they now absolutely cannot drive while using a cell phone at all, hands free or not.

  The truth of the matter though, is that even if a driver is using a hands free device, it still does not guarantee that the person won’t get distracted anyways. With this new law, the cops will now have an additional reason to pull a car over besides speeding. I’m sure a lot of people aren’t going to see that coming and will get quite the shock if they don’t know about the “hands free law.”

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