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Originally Posted by humfrz
Well now, extrashaky, that may be fine and dandy where you roam around, but, messing with the cell phone while driving (or just sitting in traffic) here in Washington State, will get you a $136 fine. Grab it twice and it will cost you $234. If you get caught, of course.
However, you can "touch" or "swipe" it ONCE, but that's it.
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You might want to go read it again. It prohibits you from "using" a phone. But then it defines "use":
(c) "Use" or "uses" means:
(i) Holding a personal electronic device in either hand or both
hands;
(ii) Using your hand or finger to compose, send, read, view,
access, browse, transmit, save, or retrieve email, text messages,
instant messages, photographs, or other electronic data;
however,
this does not preclude the minimal use of a finger to activate,
deactivate, or initiate a function of the device;
(iii) Watching video on a personal electronic device.
If it's in my phone mount, I'm not holding it. I don't text or email while driving anyway, so that's irrelevant to me. And the law explicitly allows minimal use of a finger to activate a function of the device, like accepting an incoming call through the car's handsfree function or bringing up radar to see which direction that cloud up ahead is going.
Even in Washington the way I use it would be okay.