In the city, the use of cell phones — whether browsing contacts, using social media, or actually texting — while driving is restricted to
using hands free devices.
Another would prohibit junior license holders — drivers under 18 — from using any kind of cell phone while driving,
including hands free devices.
It has been awhile since my actual drivers test so information on the new laws was great even though I have heard about them through the news
ie hands free devices and texting.
Today it is mostly hand - held and
even hands free devices which allow them to talk, text or even fetch driving directions, while they are driving.
Today the National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) is recommending a nationwide ban on not only texting while driving, but using your phone at all in anything other than a built in by the
manufacturer hands free device.
While using a bluetooth, speakerphone, or
other hands free device does make it less dangerous, it is still much more dangerous than driving without the phone distracting you.
The flip side to the coin is that more restrictive city wide bans on driving and
using hands free devices will be rolled away as the state government intends making legislation uniform across the whole state.
It's also a great way to make sure you have the option to use your phone as
a hands free device while you're driving.
This means that in McAllen at the moment, it is already illegal to text and drive, as well as phone and drive using
a hands free device, but after September 1st it will be o.k. to use a hands free device!
California law states if you are under 18 years old, you are NOT allowed to use a cell phone for any reason while driving, including texting and making calls this includes
a hands free device.
One thing that women tends to do more often than men while driving is talking on a mobile phone but a larger fraction of the women use
a hands free device to do that.
Using
hands free devices to communicate with customers and dispatchers throughout the workday