Kansans, the ban on texting while driving is closer.
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed the bill banning texting while driving (S.B. 300). The law goes into effect as soon as it's published in the Kansas Register.
Reading your texts is also not cool with the state of Kansas. Warning tickets will be issued up until the new year. After that, the fine for texting while driving is $60.
But talking on your cell phone while driving is still cool.
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Texting while driving is not a right covered by civil liberties. It's a hazard to public saftety the same as driving drunk. It's driving while willingly not paying full attention to the road.
Your product sounds nice but still... there's no text message so important that it can't wait until you're stopped to send it. Though I'm sure this $60 fine is just the beginning. Eventually folks will be losing their licenses over this petty childish junk.
I decided to do something about teen distracted driving after my three year old daughter was nearly run down right in front of me last fall by a texting driver. That incident changed me but I don�t hate texting. The way I see it, that would be like hating nightfall � 72% of teens text every single day - some over 3000 times a month. The texting drivers I spoke with, including teens and truckers, all said that laws and Big Brother type software devices that "lock down" their phones would not deter them at all. They feel their civil liberties slipping away. So I built a tool called OTTER for the individual to help manage their texting on their terms.
OTTER is a comprehensive text management system for the home, office and certainly, the highway. It has GPS based Parental Control Feature for teen drivers, a GPS Mode for adults who choose to use it and an Auto reply with unlimited customized responses. We are getting 4.5 to 5 star rating from the tech community and great response from teen groups and safety organizations. We have heard of teens and business people alike using OTTER to schedule their own "texting blackout periods" so they can get some focused work done without feeling disconnected from their social network. If a someone uses OTTER like this, then we think they will see the benefit of OTTER's road safety features. We are not going to stop until change hits our roads and not just our laws.
Best,
Erik Wood, owner
OTTER LLC
http://www.OTTERapp.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
@brian nueveo
Phone records.
If there is a deluge of BS defenses you can bet that either A. The law will be changed to read "If you're caught LOOKING at a hand held electronic device while driving then you fail" (as it should be right now) or B. It will become very easy for the courts to get access to everyone's phone records to more easily prosecute these moronic crimes.
For the record I think talking on the phone without a handsfree device should be outlawed too.
But is it still ok for the Minivan Moms to drive 80mph down the highway looking at the back of their minivan...screaming at their kids...and not paying attention to traffic?? Come on, people! They are the ones weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating and not paying attention. Where are their tickets???? Let's be fair, people!
Hey at least it is still perfectly legal to play Tetris on my phone, take pictures with my phone, check my calendar on my phone, make and receive calls, use the calculator on my phone, watch YouTube videos on my phone, etc, etc, etc while driving.
(all of which should affirmative defenses unless the state can prove you were texting)
What if I'm plugging an address into my GPS? Or what if I'm not texting but checking my e-mail on my phone?
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