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New Distracted Driving Law
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Wetpaperbag
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Location: olympia Joined: Sat Sep 21, 2013 Posts: 3784
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http://www.king5.com/news/what-the-new- ... /458096803I get the idea behind the law, and I've seen a load of people who do all kinds of things while driving. Too many folks try and text or check social media status, or surf the web while driving. However, this is going to be a tough thing to be proving, and I kinda feel this is going to be a money grab from the state. Personally I don't text and drive, but I have no problem talking on the phone while driving and equate it to talking to someone in the car. Although when someone is in the car I feel more people turn to look at the person talking. Which takes your eyes off the road more so than talking on a phone. So what's next, no talking while driving too?
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:11 am |
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L_O_G
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Goes on your record as well
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:13 am |
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Captain90s
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Location: Olympia Joined: Wed Feb 6, 2013 Posts: 5365
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This whole thing smells fishy to me. Like a big fishy money-grab.
I'm all for not texting while you're driving, but the idea that I can't even look at my phone while at a red light is odd. When I get a text message while driving, I'll usually glance over at the phone just to see who it's from, then at the next stop I'll read it and reply if needed. I fail to see how this makes me a hazard to myself or others.
Oh, and did you see the list of "Other distracted behaviors" that they can slap an additional $99 fine on you for? Included among the list is "smoking". I'm sorry, unless you're smoking a meth pipe, how the fuck is that distracting? So now I can't smoke in my own car?
The Nanny State grows more Nanny-ish.....
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stompah
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Not my permanent record!
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:16 am |
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OhShoot!
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did they list road head as a distraction? Naw officer, it helps me relax.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:18 am |
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Selador
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Just yesterday, I was at the light on hwy 2 at main street, in Monroe.
As I pulled up, a woman in a large SUV pulled up beside me, in the right turn lane. I was going straight.
There was a woman on a bicycle on the other side of the intersection. Obviously partway off the curb there, headed our way.
The woman in the SUV could have turned right at any time, but sat there for the light.
When the light turned, the lady on the bicycle started across the road... The lady in the SUV still sat there, until my truck moved forward enough for her to catch it out of the corner of her eye... Then she took off like a bat after a mosquito, and nearly hit the woman on the bike.
Had she hit her, it would have been hard, and an injury or death would have occurred.
As I said, the woman on the bike was already there when we stopped at the light. She was as obvious as the light itself, to anyone even halfway paying attention.
The woman in the SUV... was on her phone. Texting. Had been doing so, even before she approached the intersection and stopped.
The woman on the bike could have paid with her life, because the woman in the SUV is so self absorbed that she thinks she is entitled to text while driving...
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:26 am |
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AR15L
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The seat belt law started out the same way. They couldn't pull you over for it but could "add it on" to another ticket when pulled over. Now look how it's evolved.
Same with the cell phone.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:32 am |
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Jonathan Brown
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Law enforcement is exempt from the law.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:45 am |
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quantsuff
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How are going to respond when the LEO asks for your phone password to "gather evidence," such as your activity log?
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:56 am |
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AR15L
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quantsuff wrote: How are going to respond when the LEO asks for your phone password to "gather evidence," such as your activity log? GFY
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:07 am |
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Guns4Liberty
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quantsuff wrote: How are going to respond when the LEO asks for your phone password to "gather evidence," such as your activity log? Hand him a copy of the constitution and tell him the answer lies therein.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:07 am |
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JohnMBrowning
Location: Bothell Joined: Sat Sep 12, 2015 Posts: 4872
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I'm all for this law... but I'm kinda confused as to how you are going to use GMaps to get anywhere... getting a ticket for looking at the gps would suck.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:27 am |
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deadshot2
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quantsuff wrote: How are going to respond when the LEO asks for your phone password to "gather evidence," such as your activity log? I will respond to that request with "when pigs fly" and then he will just seize the phone and apply for a warrant. Best bet is to just put the phone in the glove box or center console and enjoy the drive. Now in my Volt, the phone pairs with the My Link console and tells me when I have a text. I can then just touch the screen and it will read the text to me. If I try to respond while the vehicle is moving it won't let me but when stopped I can touch the reply button and dictate a message. About as distracting as listening to talk radio and talking to your radio (or shouting sometimes). FWIW, we've pretty much become a "nanny state" because the common sense people used to exercise has become near extinct. A mass epidemic or "Cranial Rectal Inversion has broken out among drivers and a good number of these laws are designed to keep the assholes from killing the innocent. Oh yeah, ever notice how it's always the OTHER driver doing stupid shit, not you (the general "you" not a specific member here).
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:28 am |
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L_O_G
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Location: South Seattle Joined: Thu Sep 22, 2011 Posts: 13486
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So Uber drivers will have to develop psychic powers to get riders to their destination
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:29 am |
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Alpine
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On one hand I am sick of missing lights (I have to use my car horn 3-4 times a day) and getting constant near misses from idiots buried in their phones who swerve, on the other hand I dislike LEO revenue generation schemes.
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