{"id":573,"date":"2009-09-04T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=573"},"modified":"2009-09-04T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T13:51:11","slug":"utah-joins-ny-in-toughening-texting-while-driving-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/09\/04\/utah-joins-ny-in-toughening-texting-while-driving-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Joins NY in Toughening Texting-While-Driving Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a motorcyclist, I can talk for hours and hours about first-hand encounters with drivers preoccupied with their cell phones (not to mention food, newspapers, computers, GPS units, ad nauseum). We (the editorial <em>we<\/em>) pass all kinds of stupid laws all the time, why can&#8217;t we have more like these? Just as, or perhaps even <em>more<\/em> importantly, why can&#8217;t we actually enforce them as vigorously as needed in order that they&#8217;re effective in changing behavior?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NY Times: Utah Gets Tough With Texting Drivers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/29\/technology\/29distracted.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/29\/technology\/29distracted.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a motorcyclist, I can talk for hours and hours about first-hand encounters with drivers preoccupied with their cell phones (not to mention food, newspapers, computers, GPS units, ad nauseum). We (the editorial we) pass all kinds of stupid laws all the time, why can&#8217;t we have more like these? Just as, or perhaps even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/09\/04\/utah-joins-ny-in-toughening-texting-while-driving-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utah Joins NY in Toughening Texting-While-Driving Laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[54,53,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}