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- numb, on 07/01/2008, -0/+41How about rolling a joint while driving with your knees... I mean if they intend to legalize it there.
Seriously though, there are a million reckless things you can do while driving, and it's just not feasible to make a specific law banning each and every one of them. Sometimes you need to be a little more general about it, like making "reckless driving" illegal. - dougvfr750, on 07/01/2008, -0/+25I thought most guys would be interested in what their female passenger can do while they are driving.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+26You can legally use a laptop while driving??
- HisVaderness, on 07/01/2008, -1/+21Road Head?
- skizzy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+16Road Head - The cure for Road Rage
- mrzeero, on 07/02/2008, -0/+16This law has been brought to you by the Bluetooth headset alliance.
- skizzy, on 07/01/2008, -1/+14You can give birth while driving.
- YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11pat your head and rub your stomach
- PabloMac, on 07/02/2008, -2/+13If it's ok for cops, it should be ok for the rest of us.
- psykiv, on 07/02/2008, -1/+11In other news. Blackberry sales up 300% in California.
- mrzeero, on 07/02/2008, -0/+10I like to arc weld on the way to work. It really helps relieve the rush hour stress for me.
- susilou, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8We could install eye cameras and watch what every driver watches while they drive. Not the ones who don't break the law of course, only the ones who need to be monitored.
Good idea. - mrzeero, on 07/02/2008, -1/+9I find it interesting that police officers can operate a laptop while driving, but a CITIZEN is incapable of talking on a phone.
- meruru, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7If you thought the sex was good you should try stage 2
- thatsoccerkid, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7you can play with your banana!
- rhoVsquared, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8It's not quite that bad, but it's more than just $20..
"The base fine for the FIRST offense is $20 and $50 for subsequent convictions. According to the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedule, with the addition of penalty assessments, a first offense is $76 and a second offense is $190."
Source: http://www.chp.ca.gov/pdf/media/cell_phone_faq.pdf - jimmaculate, on 07/01/2008, -2/+8That's fantastic. although the people texting on their cell phones are a more likely hazard.
- eengineer, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Did not know this. Awesome, I can now digg while driving.
Or, Yes Officer I was on my laptop reading an article on digg about how it is legal to drive while using a laptop when I hit this person. - mrzeero, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6While they receive specialized driving instruction, the only training that would make using a laptop safer would be training that teaches them to move their eyes independently and see in two different directions at the same time, like a chameleon. Last I checked that was impossible.
- hapax, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Ask directions for them?
- URnotheonly1, on 07/02/2008, -0/+61 more reason for them to pull you over and look in your car, then they are going to charge you $20 for the look
- Sluglas, on 07/02/2008, -1/+6Jerk the shifter?
- GRTWHT, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Read "The World According to Garp" and then decide how good an idea you think that might be.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Rest assured California teenagers, you can still use your desktop while driving.
- PabloMac, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Yes, just not the "first two stages of producing a child."
There are TWO stages previous to giving birth? - thebigbradwolf, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5didn't there use to be a law where you were required to pay for car insurance and if you hit someone, they paid the damages, and increased your premium and then people were just personally responsible for what they did in their cars?
- dupswapdrop, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5I drive with my knees while eating and drinking coffee.
- rayraym0fucka, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Where they should be!
Oh snap! I went there.
;p - flameboy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Except they didn't ban talking on phones. They banned holding the device up to your ear. Too bad its the actual conversation that is distracting and not holding the headset. Pointless you say? Our legislator doesn't care about pointless.
- Ex3poo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I communicate with people, while in my car with smoke signals.
- ispeakasian, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4ooh boy im in trouble now, arent i?
- cien750hp, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5"dig into some obnoxious book by Ron Paul about why making cellphones (or anything) illegal is totally illegal"
Just for the record, this is a state law which means Ron Paul is fine with it so long as it doesn't violate the constitution (which it doesn't). Now if it were a national law, gizmodo might actually be right that he would be opposing it. /end rant - PakoBedejo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4If it's safe for a police officer to speed through slower traffic...why is it not just as safe for said traffic to normally move at the speed which the officer is going?...is his car MAGIC?
Instead of banning unsafe items...just ***** ban stupid/inattentive drivers... - SFJoe, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4$20 doesn't sound like much of a fine until you tack on "court costs", then it becomes much less funny. Also, since this is a moving violation, you'll have to go to traffic school to keep your insurance company from jacking your rates. You're not going to find many people laughing off a fine that's "only" $20.
- diggydougie, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4The main reason for laws such as these is to give the cops a reason to pull you over and (hopefully for them) find drugs or something else. These "behavior" laws give the cops Carte-Blanche to pull anyone over without probable cause.
- Rahodeb, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I've used a laptop with a GPS dongle and MS Streets & Trips before. I wonder where that falls in terms of "GPS device" for under 18 drivers.
- flameboy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Uh yes it does. It's called vehicular manslaughter and it carries stiff penalties.
Support personal responsibility and reject the nanny state. - Xzn31, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Inaccurate. It's $76.
Here's the biggest thing: It's a moving violation. Gotta sit your ass through traffic school or get your insurance dinged with a point. - mrzeero, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3That is a silly comparison. One involves looking at the road while driving, the other does not.
- flameboy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Right. But what about the people who don't have anything to hide who have to endure getting pulled over and possibly searched for no other reason except talking on a phone?
- davidrools, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3A cop can always pull you over if you're driving erratically or unsafely. People talking on the phones are way too common while being both dangerous and annoying. Making laws against these other things would be pointless.
- VipperOfVipp, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4I've been calling the blackberry thing 'thumbing and driving'
I don't know how you'd do it with an iPhone, now that would be dangerous. - WiseWeasel, on 07/02/2008, -3/+6Exactly, the rule should ban looking away from the road for more than a second at a time, and no more than once every three-five seconds while operating a moving vehicle. Basically, keep your eyes on the road, people! It would seem like common sense that a driver would want to keep their eyes on the road, and NOT get themselves killed, but if we need a law, then that's what it should be.
- dlm85, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4Getting a BJ
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Maybe he thinks everyone has to cook up GHB first?
- flameboy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Nobody will complain about that because it is really not unsafe to drive over the speed limit in many legitimate circumstances.
Let me say that again:
It is NOT always unsafe to speed. Your driving teacher lied to you. - jnordb, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Funny....I guess keyng Morse Code messages on your vacuum-tube powered 1963 vintage Heathkit ham radio set while driving is A-O.K. with The Man.
- Adamlite, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3Well... unless you use a hands-free device or pull off the road to make a call. I don't like it, but given that this is now legislated, it's in a person's best interest to follow the law if they've got something to hide, kind of like when I don't speed on the way home with freshly-purchased contraband
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4Shouldn't be even an issue with guys, but it is, cellphone turned guys into girls, yapping there ***** lips all the time on the phone.
- dark1587, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Oh God... now you've brought back bad memories of that book! dammit!
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