Florida is rushing to get out a "no texting while you drive" law. It passed through the Florida Senate with ease, and the Florida House of Representatives will most likely pass it next week. The reason it has passed to quickly, is that it is an easy and comprehensive law that starts slow in its introduction. First, if you break the law it won't cost you that much, second everybody in Florida seems to want this law, it's just that they all want to break it too.
We have seen the commercials played over and again about someone's loved one that has died because they were driving and texting. They make sure to hit home by letting you know the deceased "last words." Historically, unless you are at someone's dying bed, or with them at the exact time a horrific accident or purposeful death happens, you're not going to hear someone's last words. Today's technology brings even death's words to those already grieving.
I find myself doing it, especially in the town I live in, where 3 minute lights are the norm. Could you imagine how it would be like when the law tightens, and it will. We'll have police officers on the beat for our clicks.
This the break down of the law:
A - A cop can't pull you over just for that, you have to be making another infringement of the law. This is similar to how they introduced the seat belt laws
B - The first offense is $3. I guess they suspect a lot of young people taking a ticket or two to get in the habit of not doing it
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