Tickets for talking and texting while driving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with op that it is creepy and inappropriate. There are a lot of things people do in a car that are illegal and no one has ever called for pictures to be taken. We’re not a police state and we shouldn’t allow local politicians to turn us into one.

We now have the technology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can take my pic all day long, I've got nothing to hide. You sound oddly upset about this.

BTW - if you are texting while driving, they sure as shit better ticket your ass, and a big one too! at least $500.

I'm going to need to install cameras in your bathroom, just to make sure you're not doing anything illegal in there.

If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

This is a natural outcome of electing a single party to run the county. A dearth of ideas, and no ideological checks and balances to prevent it from spinning into a Orwellian state.

Sick of dems acting like a nanny state? Then vote for another party. Otherwise, you deserve the Montgomery county govt as far up your butt as they can manage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Bingo.

Why are cops exempt from the law against phone use while driving? If it was unsafe, police wouldn't be doing it either. And if it IS unsafe, why do we allow cops to do it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Actually there are lots and lots of accidents.

No western country has anywhere close to the number of traffic fatalities per capita that we have in the US.

There are actually quite a few studies now showing that using a phone while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004

But freedom. Or something.

I have $5,000 cash that says I'm a better driver with a cel phone in hand than you are driving drunk.

We can test this. We can know this answer for certain. Closed course, private property. Legal waivers. Under supervision. We will both drive an identical car around an identical course, with identical surprise challenges. I'll talk on the phone with the phone held to my ear for two laps, and do two more laps while texting short responses to one sentence texts. You will drive with a blood alcohol level of .12, the statistical average level of all DUI crashes.

I put up $5,000 cash.

You put up $5,000 cash.


Then we see who's right.




Whaddya say?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Actually there are lots and lots of accidents.

No western country has anywhere close to the number of traffic fatalities per capita that we have in the US.

There are actually quite a few studies now showing that using a phone while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004

But freedom. Or something.

I have $5,000 cash that says I'm a better driver with a cel phone in hand than you are driving drunk.

We can test this. We can know this answer for certain. Closed course, private property. Legal waivers. Under supervision. We will both drive an identical car around an identical course, with identical surprise challenges. I'll talk on the phone with the phone held to my ear for two laps, and do two more laps while texting short responses to one sentence texts. You will drive with a blood alcohol level of .12, the statistical average level of all DUI crashes.

I put up $5,000 cash.

You put up $5,000 cash.


Then we see who's right.




Whaddya say?

Have you tried Xanax?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Actually there are lots and lots of accidents.

No western country has anywhere close to the number of traffic fatalities per capita that we have in the US.

There are actually quite a few studies now showing that using a phone while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004

But freedom. Or something.

I have $5,000 cash that says I'm a better driver with a cel phone in hand than you are driving drunk.

We can test this. We can know this answer for certain. Closed course, private property. Legal waivers. Under supervision. We will both drive an identical car around an identical course, with identical surprise challenges. I'll talk on the phone with the phone held to my ear for two laps, and do two more laps while texting short responses to one sentence texts. You will drive with a blood alcohol level of .12, the statistical average level of all DUI crashes.

I put up $5,000 cash.

You put up $5,000 cash.


Then we see who's right.




Whaddya say?

LOL - everyone is an above average driver!

Just follow the damn law and everyone, including you, will be safer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Bingo.

Why are cops exempt from the law against phone use while driving? If it was unsafe, police wouldn't be doing it either. And if it IS unsafe, why do we allow cops to do it?

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Police officers speed, too. Are you now going to say that it's not unsafe to speed, on grounds that police officers speed?

[Anonymous]

In Maryland, it is lawful to have the phone in hand to dial a number or when used as a GPS. It also is lawful to make certain calls an send certain texts (911 calls for example). Hence, a photograph showing an individual merely holding a cell phone while driving would not be proof of any offense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Maryland, it is lawful to have the phone in hand to dial a number or when used as a GPS. It also is lawful to make certain calls an send certain texts (911 calls for example). Hence, a photograph showing an individual merely holding a cell phone while driving would not be proof of any offense.

There must be a whole lot of people calling 911 constantly, then.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a great way to cover the county budget shortfall. After all, people are breaking the laws, we should get their money!

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're going to take pictures of what we're doing INSIDE our cars? That's not acceptable. If a police officer sees someone, fine, give them a ticket, but I've seen those pics of drivers and it's so not okay that we are being photographed in our cars. At least if you're speeding there's a legitimate reason to have taken the shot of your car, but how are they doing to figure out what cars to take pictures of? Just capture everyone and sift through them?

Creepy as hell. No way would I approve of this. Montgomery County, MD.

Love my MoCo! Best county ever! You should be in prison, not posting here.

I don't text and drive. That's not the issue. Have you seen the pics they showed on the news of people in their cars? It is unreal what a creepy police state we are living in these days. This is a free country. People should willingly obey the laws, not obey them because they are being filmed by the state. That is just wrong.

If you don’t want your picture taken stay home with the shades drawn. Every other driver on my morning commute has a phone in their hand. I’m floored there aren’t more accidents. If this is what it takes to get people to put their phones down good, do it.

Yeah that's the thing isn't it. There aren't more accidents. This isn't about preventing accidents, it's about making more money.

Actually there are lots and lots of accidents.

No western country has anywhere close to the number of traffic fatalities per capita that we have in the US.

There are actually quite a few studies now showing that using a phone while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004

But freedom. Or something.

I have $5,000 cash that says I'm a better driver with a cel phone in hand than you are driving drunk.

We can test this. We can know this answer for certain. Closed course, private property. Legal waivers. Under supervision. We will both drive an identical car around an identical course, with identical surprise challenges. I'll talk on the phone with the phone held to my ear for two laps, and do two more laps while texting short responses to one sentence texts. You will drive with a blood alcohol level of .12, the statistical average level of all DUI crashes.

I put up $5,000 cash.

You put up $5,000 cash.


Then we see who's right.




Whaddya say?

People like you driving in the real world are why there are so many injuries and deaths on the roads. You are so convinced that you’re great that when you do screw up you’ll blame it on everyone else. Do us a favor and stay on a closed course. Leave our public streets for people who can figure out how to drive safely and understand that laws apply to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Agree with OP. And don't fool yourselves into thinking this is about safety. It's about collecting revenue. DUI revenue, I mean arrests must be slow this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. And don't fool yourselves into thinking this is about safety. It's about collecting revenue. DUI revenue, I mean arrests must be slow this year.

I'm fine with collecting revenue from people who are on their phones while driving. If you don't want to pay, there's an easy way to avoid it: stay off your phone while driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. And don't fool yourselves into thinking this is about safety. It's about collecting revenue. DUI revenue, I mean arrests must be slow this year.

I am a liberal Democrat and agree with OP as well.