{"id":746,"date":"2004-01-02T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2004-01-02T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T13:32:27","slug":"no-front-seat-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/no-front-seat-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"No Front Seat Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/01\/02\/052233\" target=\"_blank\">California Bans Front-Seat Computer Use <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of January 1, 2004 the State of California has banned the use of notebook computers used anywhere in the front seat (PDF) of a moving vehicle. Previously, the ban applied just to TV sets. Even if your car-pooling front seat passenger is just doing some programming, you can be charged with a crime (AB 301). Thanks go to CA Assemblymember Sarah Reyes for this well meaning but overly broad piece of legislation.&#8221; The text is mercifully short, but still contains some tricky language; probably the meaning of &#8220;installed&#8221; at the very least needs to be clarified. Would a laptop affixed to a installed bracket count? Considering the complexity of modern automotive navigation\/control systems (now sneaking into budget vehicles, too), it seems like a very fine distinction. The law would seem to ban handheld computers being used as navigation aids, too, or GPS devices with games, and very soon, nearly all cell phones. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Bans Front-Seat Computer Use &#8220;As of January 1, 2004 the State of California has banned the use of notebook computers used anywhere in the front seat (PDF) of a moving vehicle. Previously, the ban applied just to TV sets. Even if your car-pooling front seat passenger is just doing some programming, you can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}