New Nebraska law beginning July 15

Kansas just put in place a no texting law but put an exemption in place if you are receiving an emergency text such as an amber alert or a severe weather text. IEMBOT twitter alerts thanks the state of Kansas for this exemption. :rolleyes:

Also if you are chasing in the city limits of Manhattan, KS they put in affect a no cellphone use law without a hands free device. Of course Law enforcement, emergency personal and Hams are exempted. Glad I have my Amature license. :cool:
 
And not that it matters for any of you...but Maryland is another state that is now cell (unless with hands free device) and text prohibited while driving. Hams, emergency, media, etc. are exempt.
 
Jason Foster said:
Wonder how the hams, taxi drivers, and other two way radio users feel about this law, or are they exempt. Hams are federally licensed, so is this a case of federal trumping state, or does that not apply here?

I'd probably do it on occasion but general I don't need to do much but look at the laptop. I'm sure a quick slight of hand and bring up the NAV software may (hopefully) get you out of it. But if I get the ticket...I accept I broke the law....no biggy.
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Looking over the texts (forgive the pun) of the Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan laws, the laws ban writin, reading, or sending text messages. So I suppose unless one is sending packet radio data, hams and commercial radio users should be okay.

I wonder if sending CW (basically, Morse code) is covered? :p
 
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Lee Kuhlman said:
FYI...Oklahoma just passed similar legislation that will take effect on 11-1-2010. I haven't read the law (gee, I sound like Napolitano) but understand that it bans texting and even talking without a headset.
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AND they probably have a no headphones law too, as I believe every state does....;)
 
At this rate cell phones will become obsolete for their intended use (staying connected while mobile, etc etc) if you're to stay within the law.

We humans are so entertaining to watch; we get all caught up in new technologies, implement those technologies to enhance our lives, then restrict those technologies because they're too dangerous.

Might as well ban eating, drinking, and looking out side windows too :rolleyes:
 
Shane Adams said:
At this rate cell phones will become obsolete for their intended use (staying connected while mobile, etc etc) if you're to stay within the law.

We humans are so entertaining to watch; we get all caught up in new technologies, implement those technologies to enhance our lives, then restrict those technologies because they're too dangerous.

Might as well ban eating, drinking, and looking out side windows too :rolleyes:
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It's just process Shane, it's how we evolve and progress. I know it's weird, and even entertaining, but a good society is one that constantly evaluates itself. The cell phone while driving part is a great evaluation and correction. For the time being, we seem to still be able to communicate while mobile, just not with something that takes our hands off the wheel. I mean, hell....if eating soup while driving is actually more dangerous than talking on the cell phone (that one was for you Collura), than it is kinda dumb to ban one without the other. But it is way more stupid to do nothing. I don't think that was what you meant Shane...but I'm saying it anyway.
 
I never text and drive. Never have, never will. Though, i will say this...I HAVE read a text while driving. My brother OTOH does it all the time. He did it once while i was in the truck with him and it made me SUPER nervous.
 
Jason Foster said:
I don't think that was what you meant Shane...but I'm saying it anyway.
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You're right....my stab was actually at technological advances themselves. I've long-said technology will be the downfall of humanity. We get so wrapped up in the short term gain we fail to see long term problems.

(1) Cell phones.....driving hazard
(2) The internet....the gradual retardation of real-world social skills
(3) X-Box and Iphones....a genre of overweight, out-of-shape, ghost-white youth.

Of course I'm exaggerating for entertainment purposes, but you see the point. For proof of #2, just attend any storm chaser gathering ;)
 
My contract with Verizon expires at the end of August, and at that point I plan on dumping my old Alltel smart phone (a Blackberry Pearl which is in reality an idiot phone) for a very basic unit without all the whizbangs. No text messaging. No email. No internet connection. No camera or video. And no paying a whole lotta extra $$$ for features I hardly ever use. I'm stripping back to simplicity, and from a $110 phone bill to $40.

Maybe that sounds like austerity, but that's a matter of perspective. It wasn't all that long ago when cell phones didn't even exist, and I had to find a gas station with a drive-up phone booth (remember those?) if I needed to make a call. So just the ability to call people on the fly is in my book a luxury.

I understand that to business people who travel, the extras are a real boon. I'm not knocking that. But I wonder to what extent all the "communicate NOW" features make us less patient, more demanding people, faster-paced within and intolerant of less-than-instantaneous service in ways we never would have been fifteen years ago.
 
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Bob Hartig said:
My contract with Verizon expires at the end of August, and at that point I plan on dumping my old Alltel smart phone (a Blackberry Pearl which is in reality an idiot phone) for a very basic unit without all the whizbangs. No text messaging. No email. No internet connection. No camera or video. And no paying a whole lotta extra $$$ for features I hardly ever use. I'm stripping back to simplicity, and from a $110 phone bill to $40.

Maybe that sounds like austerity, but that's a matter of perspective. It wasn't all that long ago when cell phones didn't even exist, and I had to find a gas station with a drive-up phone booth (remember those?) if I needed to make a call. So just the ability to call people on the fly is in my book a luxury.

I understand that to business people who travel, the extras are a real boon. I'm not knocking that. But I wonder to what extent all the "communicate NOW" features make us less patient, more demanding people, faster-paced within and intolerant of less-than-instantaneous service in ways we never would have been fifteen years ago.
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Yes! Thank you! I work in the Shipping and Printing Industry :rolleyes: and people are downright nasty when you do not complete things instanteously...never mind the six people ahead of you, or the fact that your project isn't exactly a short run.

Technology can make our lives better...witness some of our medical advances. But it can also make us disappear as human beings.
 
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