Hands free cell phone usage while driving: now a reality
December 31st, 2007
Effective tomorrow in the state of Washington, text messaging while driving will no longer be legal. A similar law hits New Jersey in March. In the spirit of ensuring safety for oneself and other drivers, laws such as these will be coming to many more states in 2008. You can find a state by state law roll out here. For a broader, international view of hands free cell phone usage restrictions, this page is a good reference.
As many of us have adapted to using the cell phone while driving, and may even consider ourselves to do it reasonably safely, the coming laws must be adhered to to avoid unnecessary fines. There are many cost-effective ways to set up your cell phone so that you can still enjoy it hands free while driving.
One such way is through devices such as the AudioBUG ATB 350 FM Transmitter. Simply plug it into your car’s cigarette lighter, plug the other end into your cell phone, and enjoy your cell phone audio piped through your car’s stereo speakers at any FM frequency. It’s pretty slick.
We’ll continue to provide you with other hands free solutions for safe driving while using your cell phone and keep you updated on new laws that will impact your in car cell phone usage.
Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Summer,
A ‘law’ or idea who’s time has come…awhile ago, I observed this middle-aged female driving down the Interstate, her McDonald’s tray on the dashboard, a newspaper and telephone to her ear…what was even scarier part of this situation was the three young toddlers in the back seat…can you imagine?
People have become numb to most anything that makes sense..thankfully, you can’t smoke in any public building in Colorado now..at least this harmful and annoying habitual use of carcinogenic producing tobbaco, has vanished.
Dennis
January 6th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I’m in agreement with Dennis Buksntis about cell phone usage in a Moving vehicle. If a need to talk is more important than focusing upon the responsibilities of driving, then there are a lot of Idiots going past me (head on), which sends chills down my back. Worth remembering that 2 vehicles going towards each other at 30 MPH makes for a 60 MPH crash–enough to kill! Lest we forget about the overpowered sound systems in the vehicles of our youths–totally masking their (probably already deaf)ears ability to hear anything else around them, including emergency vehicles. Its difficult to legislate common sense, but since so many insist on doing such stupid things, in thae name of their own convenience, something can be and should be done to make it a criminal instance when “bad things happen”
Frank