Re: Electronic Device Legislation
hwybear wrote:78.1 (1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway while holding or using a hand-held wireless communication device or other prescribed device that is capable of receiving or transmitting telephone communications, electronic data, mail or text messages.Entertainment devices
(2) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway while holding or using a hand-held electronic entertainment device or other prescribed device the primary use of which is unrelated to the safe operation of the motor vehicle.
Ok, hypothetical scenarios of what might go wrong under (1).
1. I'm driving down the road and my wife (I'm not married, but this all hypothetical) asks me to give her my phone to call her mother. As I reach for the phone and hand it over to her, the cop sees me and writes me a ticket.
2. Phone rings, I look at the screen and see it is my mother-in-law. As I hand over the phone to the wife, the cop nabs me.
3. I'm driving down the road on a motorcycle at night and the light burns out. My cameraphone has a good light on it from camera flash, so I pull it out and fire up the light to see where I'm going....
Under (2), GPS is not exactly needed to safely operate a vehicle...
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