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I think they need to ban babies and toddlers in cars, oh, skip that, just ban all kids, way too distracting. IF I were to text while driving I would probably be much safer than I was when my kids were little "Mommmmm, he touched me!"

RPBrown wrote:

CoffeeNut wrote:

RPBrown wrote:I have hands free earphones of which I keep one in my ear so I can hear surrounding noises. However, after reading the ordinance, it appears that even talking on a hands free device can draw a fine.

That's not what I read for Austin and San Antonio had signs up saying get a hands free device.

They may have signs up but according to this, https://www.municode.com/Api/CD/Ordinances/15302/671048" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .
Read section (A) (2).

read that section again and you'll see it says exactly what we were talking about. "while holding or touching the device: " You can not touch your device or they will get you. And believe me when I say that SA seems to be crawling with cops these days, even though they claim they have not increased their numbers.

CoffeeNut wrote:

RPBrown wrote:I have hands free earphones of which I keep one in my ear so I can hear surrounding noises. However, after reading the ordinance, it appears that even talking on a hands free device can draw a fine.

That's not what I read for Austin and San Antonio had signs up saying get a hands free device.

the only way to get a fine in SA is if you have to touch your phone in order to activate your handsfree device, ie. some of the older devices you had to hit the phone in order to send it to your headset, that would violate the ordinance.

The other thing to be aware of, apparently, and I'm not sure about this, but some of my friends are saying this, apparently some of the surrounding towns are starting to enforce the SA ordinance in their area, even though they don't have the ordinance....I don't know how they're getting away with it. Something to do with bordering towns? no ones understands, but just be aware and use handsfree all over the larger metroplexes.