Drivers in Massachusetts are currently allowed to use cellphones while driving, as long as they keep one hand on the steering wheel.The “uncertain fate” of the Globe's headline refers to pending legislation about driver distraction, yada yada, as though one hand weren't enough and anyway there weren't whole industries devoted to exactly that end, distracted driving, to begin with.
Similar laws are surfacing elsewhere in the nation, including a proposal in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Ill., to make ''distracted driving“ a crime, which could include anything from drinking a cup of coffee to changing a song on an iPod while drivingWell anything can happen in Winnetka, take my word. You don't see a one-hand-on-the-wheel rule in Winnetka, do you? I thought not. We have a one-hand rule in Massachusetts.
Be careful out there.
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