http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Bluetooth headset sales booming after legislation changes in CA and WA http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/Aug 21st 2008 6:24PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/
This is the dumbest F***in law ever. How many accidents are going to be caused by people fiddling with their headsets? Texting and Dialing are still totally legal, which is odd, but the govt's rationale is that it's still illegal to "drive while distracted". If that's the case, why not just ticket idiots under that law instead of passing all new legislation? You can't legislate away stupidity.

I'm probably the last Engadget Mobile reader alive that has a phone that doesn't support Bluetooth so I'm rockin the Speakerphone and draining my battery while I'm driving. Yay...

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It would explain the slow, weaving, poor road awareness all the time.]]>Aug 8th 2008 5:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/Aug 8th 2008 5:43PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/
First, they don't teach you to drive with two hands on the wheel just for the sake of doing it. If you have one hand on the wheel, it makes you less responsive, and since 50% of accidents are because of the other driver, that responsiveness counts.

Second, you could just put on the headset when you get in the car, or at the very least make it easily accessible.

Last, this is not the dumbest law ever. The really stupid stuff is here.
http://www.totallyuselessknowledge.com/laws.php

My favorite is from Illinois:
According to state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."]]>Aug 8th 2008 3:37AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/Aug 8th 2008 4:00AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/07/bluetooth-headset-sales-booming-after-legislation-changes-in-ca/Aug 8th 2008 1:46PM