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NH drivers will have to put down phones as of July 1
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Well, its a start. #1 reason why I will never get my motorcycle license.
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Great law, Massachusetts needs to follow suit.
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From what I have seen, young girls (late teens early twenties) seem to be the biggest offenders. Now I'm not saying younger men aren't guilty as well, just from my perspective young girls seem to be the biggest offenders by about a 2 to 1 ratio. Not sure why that is but that is what I see. I have a few friends in their 60's and early 70's who have ridden motorcycles all their life and never ever thought they would stop riding but because mainly of the texting and driving issue they have decided to sell their bikes. I'm on the fence myself unless I see drastic changes on the roadways soon... Dan
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Massachusetts already has a similar law.
"Drivers are prohibited from texting while driving. That means that drivers cannot use any mobile telephone or handheld device capable of accessing the Internet to write, send, or read an electronic message including text messages, emails, and instant messages or to access the Internet while operating a vehicle. The law applies even if the vehicle is stopped in traffic." The Mass law is not as restrictive with cell phone calls. No one touch rule. |
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Yep. Love to ditch my not street legal off road buggy for a dual sport, but there's simply too many people in a rush to get nowhere. Paying more attention to their radios and phones.
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It doesn't matter
The law is ineffective in MA and will also be in NH. People feel they can do it without being caught and they're likely correct since there seems to be no real enforcement. It isn't just electronic devices anyway. The guy beside me on I-93 was swerving in his lane and when I passed I noticed he was reading some sort of multi-page stapled document in his left hand......and for quite a while!
Legal ramifications in the event of an accident caused by such behavior need to be very severe to get attention. The problem is, especially with inexperienced drivers, is that they'll likely get away with it for 99% of the time, as long as nothing happens requiring their instant attention, like a car swerving in their way, running a stop sign, or a deer running across the road. |
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I don't think they will ever be able to eliminate the problem, but after getting caught and having to pay a fine, I hope that others will realize the seriousness of their behavior and just stop doing it. The new law will only make an impact if it is strictly enforced. From what I see as I drive every day, this could be a great revenue generator for the State.
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This is classic operant conditioning. Unless the punishment is severe enough, people will continue to text and drive, and, each time they do successfully, will continue to be positively reinforced.
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I watched a driver in front of me rear-end a flatbed tractor trailer that had stopped due to exit lane traffic. I watched for nearly 6 seconds as the vehicle made no attempt to brake, and cruised into the right wheel-well area of the truck at over 50 miles per hour. She was lucky it hit the rear wheels of the truck, otherwise.... well you know. I stopped behind and went to the passenger side window, besides a very shaken women, there on the floor was a smart phone. Don't text and drive!
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A clarifying point....
This NH law isn't just for texting or email. It's a total "hands free" law which includes the use of a cell phone while driving. The Mass law only covers texting.
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Dash cam
This is one of the reasons I installed a dash cam in our car/truck. You may not avoid a run in with a texter but it will limit your liability should you meet one on the road.
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hand free/blue tooth
I am selling Jabra Freeways for $25 each. Compare online. Brand new in box. Hands free, voice assist, wireless music. PM me if your interested. Answer calls and make calls without touching your phone. this is the way to go if your car does not already have Bluetooth.
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The Massachusetts law is not as comprehensive and tougher to enforce because an offender can say they were dialing the phone. I see people texting and reading ipads all the time. I see someone crossing lines like a drunk at least once each time I am driving because they are reading or texting.
This law is a good start, but I think the real solution is to have these phones automatically disable themselves when they are moving over 10 mph. All the technology is there, it would just take some code. Unfortunately I think many would object to this until something seriously disastrous happens. |
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Keep me informed when the invention of a button that I can push on my steering wheel when I see someone texting and driving. When pushed, an arm comes of the the texter's dashboard stabbing them in the eye with a soldering iron.
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It will be sometime soon after the invention of the tractor beam that safely moves cars out of the left lane. :-)
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Yikes!
Maybe not a soldering iron............how about just a hand to slap the driver into sense? Seriously, I agree with another poster, almost every young girl I see driving has her phone in her hand. Hang up and Drive!
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I agree this would be a good solution. But as noted, it would need to somehow tie to the driver. Not allowing the passengers doesn't make sense. In many instances, the passenger is the only one keeping the drivers tempted to text from keeping their eyes on the road.
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Shows you how effective Laws are ..... Both NH & Ma have Laws stating "Keep right unless Passing". I am forever amazed and simply have to shake my head at the number of people who are oblivious to their surroundings. and always feel queezy as I pass in the (completely) empty right side lane. So if you ever see a vehicle with MA (Breast cancer) Plates pass you on the inside --- MOVE OVER, I'm trying to get to the Lake ! But in true Forum style -- I digress ! .
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No need, I think the problem is bad enough that it doesn't matter, if the phone is moving more than 10, maybe 15 mph, it stops working, passenger or driver. A necessary inconvenience caused by people too dim to realize how dangerous they are to others when they drive distracted by these devices, nevermind themselves.
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The enforcement is the hard part. We have no texting while driving here in NC. It's nearly impossible to enforce. The driver does not have to surrender the phone for search and it's easy to just say you were trying to find a number or accessing music to play. Our highway patrol uses unmarked Chevy Tahoes to look down into cars. They run projects sometimes and they are the only agency that really enforces it. It's a feel good law at best. Many would complain of gestapo tactics and the ever popular complaint "Don't the cops have something better to do?" would surely arise if law enforcement tried to do more. We can't win. It's either hands off all together for any reason (except emergencies) or put up with weak and ineffective laws. |
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But you still don't need to wear a seat belt or use a helmet on on cycle ?
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Trust me, my idea is a win as it would stop the morons who drive distracted by their smart devices from using them while they are moving. |
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I'm on board with the new law as a motorcycle rider and a witness to countless accidents caused by distracted driving. It's a start. Yes Billy Bob. NH still proudly allows you to ride without seat belts or helmets when you drive to their two new liquor dispensaries where you can purchase the worlds most dangerous drug. After all, it's the live free or die state. |
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Even the hands off thing messes me up. My truck has Sync and just saying the name of people distracts me. I guess it can read texts too, but by the time I say the name right and focus on what it is I say to the person, I notice right away that I'm wandering around the lane. I simply can't do it. Only thing I can really do while driving is hit the "next" button on my iPod in the center console. Usually within the first couple notes I know if I want to skip or leave it.
If its 100% imperative I need to make a call while driving, which sometimes it is, I pull over. But even then, I hate this obsession with phones. I have friends that need to check their phones once every five seconds. They can barely do anything manually because their phone is permanently in their hand. |
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you mean...such as use their blinker?......heaven forbid
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Blinkers!! Gawd I love it. Haven't heard that in years. Thanks mcdude.
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I'm not even talking about driving. Just lending a hand in the shop or something.
We were wheeling once and my rig got hung up. One of the guys the was there for some reason could not let go of his phone. We're in the woods on unlevel ground with stumps everywhere. Guy kept losing his balance because he was more concentrated on looking at his phone than finding his footing and helping out. We'll have customers come into the office discussing their accounts with us, suddenly they'll whip out their phone and starting thumbing away on it completely mid-sentence. "go ahead, I'm still listening" |
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It's an ADDICTION !!!
Do they realize how ridiculous they look?
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Agree about texting. There should be instant access to the phone by law enforcement and a serious fine but still think that banning cell phone use is a little over the top. Punching in a speed dial is actually less distracting than adjusting your heater or A/C, programming your GPS, messing with your radio or eating lunch at the wheel.
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From the Bill of Rights: Article the sixth... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. |
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....so what's a bluetooth?
....ok....so's why is a bluetooth named a bluetooth?
Answer: It has something to do with Harald Bluetooth, the King of Denmark, who reigned from about 958 to 986. or you can look at 'Bluetooth definition' in Wikipedia ...... huh....what?
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As a police officer, I think being able to instantly grab a phone to search it in a texting while driving case is unreasonable. Now, it could be taken for evidence and searched with a search warrant but you would really only see that in a fatal or serious injury crash where texting or phone use was suspected. Hand off completely is the only real enforceable policy. That means I would only have to testify to seeing you handling the phone, which is much simpler. Again, these are feel good laws with no teeth. |
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First off, I am not a big phone user. If I meet you at the public dock or the hardware store I will talk your ear off. I have kissed the blarney stone. But with a phone I am very terse. Too many years on the VHF I guess.
I do have some problems with this law. First is an advertisement on the radio where a man who identifies himself as a deputy is warning that using your phone is "not worth a trip in my cruiser to jail". Thank you major Hocksteder! Another is that we already have a law that covers this, distracted driving. That law covers the gambit from texting to putting on make up at the wheel. I believe that our police officers can use their judgment on the dangers involved. And if so very many people are doing it is it possible that the majority do not want the law? Remember prohibition? With so many people using the phone while driving I have to ask myself what is the ratio of how many accidents per "phone road miles"? Is it significant? Maybe it is. I don't know. Lastly, and I think that this one is valid, is that one of the most dangerous things that you can do in your car is to pull over to the side of the road. Especially at night. This law will encourage drivers to do just that. You don't have a cruiser with flashing blues behind you to warn moving traffic that you have stopped. If it at night, the drunk behind you often will follow the lights in front of him. Your rear end. I believe that a great percentage of police injuries and deaths occur by being hit while at the side of the road. I am not trying to start an argument but we should be carful of what we ask for. Misty Blue. |
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So what's the difference between using a phone and using a touch screen in a modern day automobile? In fact the brain box in the dash of these new cars is every bit if not more distracting is it not? Should those be outlawed too?
I agree with Misty on this one, there are laws in place for distracted driving, that in and of itself is sufficient. The only way I can even see a ticket stick is if it can be proven that a phone was in use at the time an accident was caused. By then it's to late. Otherwise it's he said she said. |
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Cell phone use while driving causes collisions that have killed and injured thousands of people. How about the wishes of those that do not want to get hit by cell phone users or anybody for that matter? I have responded to and take numerous wreck reports caused by distracted driving due to phones and messing with GPS devices.
Alcohol prohibition of the early 1900's and cell phone use while driving today could not be more different. Driving while impaired is illegal and there are speed limits for obvious reasons. We do not want a nanny state, so just abolish those laws and we can all do what we want in our cars. A 5000 pound car hitting you from a drunk driver or a texting driver is the same. Physics does not care what we were doing. Keep in mind that two cars traveling on a two lane road towards each other at 55 mph each causes a collision speed of 110 mph if they should hit. I guess you have to be personally affected or see the affects of it to really care about the issue. |
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Texting While Driving Causes: 1. 1,600,000 accidents per year – National Safety Council 2. 330,000 injuries per year – Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Study 3. 11 teen deaths EVERY DAY – Ins. Institute for Hwy Safety Fatality Facts 4. Nearly 25% of ALL car accidents Texting While Driving Is: 1. About 6 times more likely to cause an accident than driving intoxicated 2. The same as driving after 4 beers – National Hwy Transportation Safety Admin. 3. The number one driving distraction reported by teen drivers Texting While Driving: 1. Makes you 23X more likely to crash – National Hwy Transportation Safety Admin. 2. Is the same as driving blind for 5 seconds at a time – VA. Tech Transportation Institute 3. Takes place by 800,000 drivers at any given time across the country 4. Slows your brake reaction speed by 18% – HumanFactors & Ergonomics Society 5. Leads to a 400% increase with eyes off the road
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Could have been worse.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/03/1...l-booth-crash/ The worst happened. http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/dri...ndrun/23635360 Tell us more about the "rights" you have to put others in harms way. |
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It's a very fine-edged argument. It also interesting that some of these laws are being pushed at the very same time pushback is occurring on other laws that essentially allow an officer to pull over a motorist for very thin reasons. I'm not saying that nothing should be done, but I'm not seeing this as a fully thought-out solution either.
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*find button on steering wheel* *BLING* Please say a command Call Wife *BLING* Calling Mike *fidget with steering wheel to cancel call* call cancelled after one ring *BLING Please say a command Call W I F E Calling Wife Hi hun. How are you? Are you calling from the truck? I can barely understand you. Yea. Hold on. Incoming call from, Mike Sorry, I have Mike calling me. I'll just see you when I get home. ok. Hey Mike. Sorry I miss-dialed you. You calling from your truck? I can't understand you. *CANCELS ALL CALLS AND WAITS UNTIL NEXT PARKING LOT TO CALL PEOPLE* I honestly can't see how that process is any less frustrating than holding a phone while driving. Have to make a call or text someone? Need to plug in the address on the GPS? Figure out why you iPod stopped midsong? Get off the freakin' road and figure it out. |
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I was riding my motorcycle on Weirs Blvd. today and watched the woman in front of me screwing with her phone. She drifted across the double yellow and almost hit a truck head on. The truck driver swerved and missed US. Needless to say, she got an earful at the next light. |
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Remember when we could wait 20 minutes to get to a phone and call? ;-)
Regardless, the only solution to this issue is one I am anxiously anticipating. It's on my bucket list! I hate driving. A waste of my time. I'd rather be doing something else that is more interesting. So, I'm first in line for the self-driving car. All the naysayers will point to possible accidents, lawsuits, etc. But it is coming. A computer with the right programming and good sensors will react faster and more accurately than a human anytime. I, for one, can't wait, especially as I get older and look forward to NOT giving up my independence when my senses dictate I shouldn't be driving anymore anyway. http://www.forbes.com/sites/federico...for-insurance/ |
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I don't know what the answer is but I do know that this issue is big and harmful to others. If it only hurt the person who was texting I wouldn't give two sh*#s, as we don't need any more laws to save us from ourselves! Dan
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Hell, even without the law most people *know* it's a bad idea. Yet another law with minimal enforcement won't make a big impact (IMO).
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I drive for a living. My viewpoint is 9 feet in the air, and you wouldn't believe the distractions I see other drivers involved in. I see texting, eating, makeup, reading, maps, gps programming, dialing phones, fights, and one topic we will call other. I have found that a good whack on the air horn wakes people up as they realize that they are about to do something incredibly stupid in front of something that weighs 40 tons. Personally, I think eating is probably the worst distraction out there. Not only are you looking down but you are putting your hand(s) up to your face to keep stuffing things in.
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Here's the problem with that. I'll use my state's law for example. There is no sending or receiving any kind of text message while driving. Everything else is legal to do with a phone while driving. Under 18 is different but let's assume this for 18 and older right now. Here is the statute language:
http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislat...20-137.4A.html Here's the scenario: I spot somebody playing with their phone while we're going down the road side by side or something. It appears they are typing something. I stop that driver and ask what they were doing with the phone. And they reply with anything other than an admission to have been texting. They could say I wasn't texting but I was using the calculator, choosing music, or looking for a phone number. Then I ask to check the phone for any texts within the time I saw the violation. The driver says no, you can't see it, and I never get to search the phone. I'm sure they were texting, so I issue a citation without being able to search the phone and they can explain it to the court they weren't texting. Months later the case shows up in court. They are pleading not responsible to the charge of texting while driving. I am put on the stand to testify as to what I saw. The only thing I can honestly say is the defendant had their phone in their hand and appeared to be typing something. The attorney argues to the judge that their client was doing some other activity besides texting. The defendant says they weren't texting and I can't say exactly what they were doing with the phone. Verdict: NOT RESPONSIBLE (guilty is for misdemeanors and felonies) This scenario describes an infraction. Now what? |
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I was not comparing the two states. I was merely talking about these laws in general and supporting my contention that many are too weak to be really be effective (loopholes, this is ok but not that, etc). Sounds like NH is going hands off all together, except emergency calls and such. That's good to hear because it can be enforced easier than what exists elsewhere. I sincerely hope it saves lives.
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I don't text and drive but it still seems to be an unfunded mandate unless you get caught or get into an accident. Bigger issue is my car and most new cars come standard with a 5-8" Digital dashboard screen that one can fiddle with while driving, what's the difference? 200 satellite radio channels and your fumbling thru them on the dashboard screen while driving. Using common sense is the issue and something that is lacking.
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