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Hands free in SC is HERE and our driving habits are about to change BIG TIME!!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
When you drive in that vehicle, you've got to have
your hands on the wheel. You can't be distracted. It's
just common sense. But sometimes it takes a lull to
remind everybody of that common sense.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Govinor McMaster laying down the law quite literally, Brandon Dasa
joining us Trump the thumbs up guys. So here people
are just trying to get to a prolong labor day weekend.
And this is just a heads up because come Monday
when you're coming back into town, we have to change
our habits when it comes to being inside the vehicle.
And I think so often, Brandon, I mean for my
own self, when I'm stuck in traffic, what do you do?

(00:40):
Do you start fiddling around with your phone? Might be
your problem come monday.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I think we all have a
tendency to kind of pick up our phone or anytime
we're to stop light or traffic's slow. I know, you
know I've been guilty of that. Yeah. So yes, starting
September first, as you heard it there from Governor McMaster,
we have the hands free law going into effect, which
means you cannot touch or hold your phone. Hands free
truly means hands free only voice activated or mounted use

(01:08):
while driving is permitted. So even if you're that stop light,
you are not allowed to pick up your phone and
mess with it. You can use Siri, you can you know,
talk on your phone as long as you're not holding
your phone.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Is it the wearables to Brandon? I know if people have,
you know, they wear watches and all that stuff. So
the wearables you can still.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
You could talk on your wearable, you could say, you know,
to your Apple Watch or whatever it is you have.
You could, you know, again use voice activated, but you
you cannot, you know, start touching that screen. So if
you're touching the screen with your finger, you're going to
be in trouble if you get seen by the.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Police while you're moving. So, if you're at a stop position,
at a stop traffic light and you have a phone mounted,
can you clear some of the alerts so you still
have a battery before you can get home and plug
back in.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Technically, it's saying that you if you're not in park,
you can get a fine. Wow, So your device when
legally parked or stopped it's a little vague when what
stopped means to me? Gal If it's an emergency, you know,
report an accident, in emergency or other hazards, you can
use your device at that point in time, but they
really want you. Like I said, hands free means hands free.

(02:14):
So luckily, we do have a one hundred and eighty
day grace period where they're just going to issue warning,
so that will run through the end of February and
then starting March first, actual tickets.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Will begin and points possibly on your license. I mean
they're talking about points here, so they're taking this seat right.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah. First offense one hundred dollars fine, Second offense two
hundred dollars fine plus the two points you mentioned, which
is a lot more than what it is now. I
believe that's at twenty five dollars fine at this point
in time, and maybe going up to fifty if you
got caught today. So no points from anything like that today.
There really are, as you said, taking it seriously. And
the reason why is this is the number one cause
of collisions that we see. We always say it's not

(02:52):
an accident when you plow into the back of somebody
because you're you know, playing candy crushing your phone. So
we want to really avoid this, and we're really happy
that the governor and the legislature has enacted this law.
I think it really will cut down on the recks.
We are the thirty third state to do this that
the other states have seen a reduction in distracted driving
and the collisions and injuries that happen afterwards. Be super mindful.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
We're talking live. You're just tuning in Brandon Dawson's personal
injury lawyer founding partner there at Miller Dawson's signal.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
And ward the thumbs up guys.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, So should they go for more details about this?
Can they go to your website and get the load
down the deal?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Absolutely, yep. You can visit us at inpain dot com.
That's I inpain dot com. You can always look us
up thumbs up guys, and we'll come right up on
social media, Google all the other fun places.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Just a reminder to wrap this up. No holding your
phone to talk to text, to email, to browse social
You mentioned candy crush watching videos. Some people take video
calls when they're driving. I mean, how many in your
social scroll videos do you come across where people are
driving and they are recording videos esus.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
You you would be amazed, right, And how many times
we've when we have a case and we are doing
some research against the definite in the case and they're
posting videos of them. We will send that to the
defense and say, here's a video of your driver, you know,
filming himself while driving about thirty minutes before you plow
it into the back of our client. Let's just say
that that goes a long way and getting the great
result for our client. We hope that again that never happens,

(04:19):
and hopefully this will be a part of the solution.
But yeah, it's crazy how many times people do stuff
like that.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
They are saying within the slaw brand in Dawson with
the thumbs up guys that you can use your phone
and we already talked about this when legally stopped or parked,
and I guess legally stopped when we talk about legal
ease is when your car is in park. So I thought,
you know, at a traffic light, when I'm stopped, I
would be able to clear some messages or do whatever.
But it sounds like maybe not correct.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, I would say do not touch that phone if
unless your car is in park. So if you're getting
directions going somewhere before you, you know, pull out of
that parking spot, go ahead and put it in there.
Or you know, if you've got an iPhone or Android
and you can use the AI, the seri or what
every is on the droid there and you know, you
could use that and say, hey, you know I need
directions to X, Y or Z, but yeah, don't don't

(05:06):
go fiddling with it unless you're in park.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, controlling navigation or with music. They say, as long
as you're not holding your phone that apparently you can
do that. So I think there's going to be the
six month learning curve here for giving that to that
grace period. So just remember that though, it's time to
start changing, because you know how we are. We're creatures
of habit as human beings. Brendan Dawson, So I listen
absolutely taking some time.

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