Visiting New Jersey for the first time?
Hope you brought an analog map because the government there doesn’t like them thar new-fangled digital ones
It is already illegal to manually use a cell phone for texting or calling while driving in New Jersey. A state legislator has aimed at the next in-car distraction: GPS devices. Democratic Assemblyman Harvey Smith wants a ban on manually programming GPS devices while driving. You would need to pull over to input your destination, or have a voice-operated unit. Punishment otherwise would be a $100 fine.
Yet another reason to never go there. Not that I needed another.
And I’m not being mean to New Jersey. Washington recently passed a mandate that makes it a driving infraction to drive without your headlights on when itis raining. This is Washington, so that’s 275+ days a year. Basically, if your wipers are going, your lights must be on or you’re Trooper-bait.
I’ve sen the WSP lined up six deep under the overpass picking off drivers who didn’t hear about this new one. Sure, it’s common sense to put your lights on during a downpour, but anyone with an IQ over room temperature knows you cannot mandate common sense.
Unless you want to make money off of it (cough, cough).
More “if it’s Canadian, it must be good” bulltwaddle. DTR (daytime running lights) came about because of Canadian law about 12-14 years ago. Surprised it took the copy-monkeys this long to get into it here.
I don’t have DTR on either of my vehicles. If I leave my lights on and run my battery down, will Olympia pay for the boost?
That law is news to me. I always did it out of common sense. The Toyota turns off the headlights when I lock it with the key fob, so I leave my lights on 95% of the time anyways. I’d be pretty upset if I had the lights off, then got pulled over and ticketed for a law that I didn’t know was on the books. Damned Nanny State.
Minnesota has a similar law that if you have your wipers on, your headlights must also be on. My nephew got a $128 ticket for washing the bugs off his windshield – and it wasn’t even cloudy!
I’ll resort to my methodology of determining which states to drive through – if they recognize Texas CHL, they’re probably ok, if not, I’ll steer clear.
Common sense tends to be pervasive.
Probably not perfect, but a starting point. That cost Kansas some gas tax when I went to Boomershoot, as that standard made me steer clear of their state, even if it might have saved me a few miles. I’d rather drive farther than surrender my rights.