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Originally Posted by masraum
A coworker in NJ has actually gotten a ticket for using a cell phone while driving. He says that he was just looking at the phone, not actually making a call or texting, but apparently, that was enough that the cop saw him being distracted and not watching the road and gave him a ticket.
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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
Good.
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I think you're a little quick to necessarily pass judgement, Mr. Henry. My brother-in-law received a similar ticket. Someone called, his phone rang, he glanced at it to see who was calling (did not answer the phone), and bingo--got a ticket for that. He was stopped at a red light at the time.
When we first had the ban on texting and non-hands-free cell phone use in CA, I was all for it. (And I'm still anti-texting while driving.) But I have relatives in MA, where there is no such law about cell phone use. People drive and talk with a phone in their hand all the time. And I've noticed that it's not any significantly more dangerous to drive in MA compared to CA. Cell phone in hand or not, distracted driving is distracted driving. Those who can drive and talk safely, do just that. Those who are distracted by their cell phone, or the color of their nail polish, or the sandwich they're eating will always be just that: distracted. Not that I want to give them any more stuff with which to distract them from the main task at hand--driving. But now when I see someone on their phone while they're driving, I don't get all self-righteously pissy. If they're driving safely, they're driving safely. If they can drive and talk and chew gum all at the same time without compromising my safety, more power to them.