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Originally Posted by Notorious Honey Badger
I spoke with a cop last night at Dennys just after midnight, and he said that if he saw someone hitting the pad of a GPS it's a judgement call. "if you're texting, doing your make up and all sorts of stuff, yes, I will pull you over. But I don't think it's a big deal if your just hitting a button on a mounted GPS".
Take it for what it's worth. I've found that most cops are just decent regular people and if you treat them as such you get back what you put in. He's right too in my opinion... I don't see how hitting a button on a GPS that's mounted is any different than changing the volume on the radio or turning on the AC.
For what it's worth.
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I'm doing a police ride-along tomorrow night and can ask some of these questions, such as how much leniency a cop is likely to give you. I suspect they'll be reasonable and will use proper discretion. I know they would.
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For what it's worth, I had to pass a cop off a light today (he was stopped when it turned green, I was just coming up to it, so had more speed going than him), and I was talking on my phone, and because I'm a lazy person, I just kept talking and hoped he wouldn' pull me over.
He definitly looked over and saw me talking, but took no interest. Of course, I'm generally still a good driver when on my phone (yeah yeah, I know, everyone says that), so if that was any indication, hopefully they will just focus on people that actually look distracted and not ****ing awesome, multitask drivers, like myself.