{"id":33389,"date":"2013-04-29T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/laws-phones-maps-and-striving-toward-a-general-level-of-rationality.html"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:13:49","slug":"laws-phones-maps-and-striving-toward-a-general-level-of-rationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/laws-phones-maps-and-striving-toward-a-general-level-of-rationality.html","title":{"rendered":"Laws, Phones, Maps, and striving toward a general level of rationality"},"content":{"rendered":"
The court here didn't seem altogether pleased by how it was ruling, based on the current law, but apparently using your smartphone's GPS \u00a0and maps while driving can get you ticketed. In California, at least. \u00a0Maybe.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\n For years, we’ve discussed the problematic nature of “distracted driving” laws that seek to outlaw things like talking on your phone or texting while driving. It is not that we don’t think these beha…\n <\/p>\n

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The court here didn't seem altogether pleased by how it was ruling, based on the current law, but apparently using your smartphone's GPS \u00a0and maps while driving can get you ticketed. In California, at least. \u00a0Maybe.\u00a0 Embedded Link California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Maps On Your Phone While Driving | Techdirt For years, … Continue reading “Laws, Phones, Maps, and striving toward a general level of rationality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,65,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-my-mobile-pda","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/distracted-vs-directionless-driving.html","url_meta":{"origin":33389,"position":0},"title":"Distracted vs Directionless Driving","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Feb-14 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"A bit of sanity from California courts, ruling that the state's law on not conversing on your phone while driving does not forbid using your phone as a GPS.Now, is GPS\/map use (esp. on a smartphone) distracting? 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