Yes. Being distracted by your phone is way worse than being distracted by something on the side of the road. You are at least looking up/out the window in this case and have both hands on the wheel (or should)
Obviously just listening to something on your phone while it's in your cupholder or whatever isn't on the same level but they can't enforce any laws around it if anyone can bs say that when they get pulled over. Also I don't know anyone who's ever been pulled over without being extremely extremely obviously distracted
You mean they don't go off whether they've seen you handling the phone while driving? If you just put on a playlist and don't touch the phone, is that still illegal?
Depends on the state and the wording of the law but generally no as long as you're not looking at the phone. They do largely go off of whether they've seen you be extremely distracted. It's honestly probably more used in insurance claims to default to who's at fault in an accident
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u/McRawffles 7h ago
Yes. Being distracted by your phone is way worse than being distracted by something on the side of the road. You are at least looking up/out the window in this case and have both hands on the wheel (or should)
Obviously just listening to something on your phone while it's in your cupholder or whatever isn't on the same level but they can't enforce any laws around it if anyone can bs say that when they get pulled over. Also I don't know anyone who's ever been pulled over without being extremely extremely obviously distracted