Wondering What To Do Now That Cell’s Are Banned While Driving??..
Is everyone in a big panic yet?? Especially all of you teenage girls who can’t go 4 feet without texting or checking your phone for some important message that you’ll forget about in 2 seconds? Ha.. ok.. a bit of a rant there.. I apologize to all you teenage girls who can’t go 4 feet without texting or checking your phone for some important message that you’ll forget about in 2 seconds.
Seriously though, this is a GREAT new law that they’re putting in – but does anyone realize how difficult it is to enforce? It’d be next to impossible I think, but then I don’t know what kind of training or anything like that goes into it. So I’ll do what I hope everyone does.. either not use the cell phone in the car, or find a way to do it hands free!
Which brings me to the point of this blog post. I’ve been using hands-free in my car for quite some time, but it isn’t done via Bluetooth nor do I have a fancy ear piece.
What I do, and it works great – is use my AUX port for my audio, and simply use the speaker-phone mode on my blackberry when I’m talking. This way, I get to hear them just like bluetooth – right through my speakers in my car – and they get to hear my fine from the speaker-phone.
This will also work if you had a tape deck in your car and had one of those old tape deck to headphone jack adapters which I used to use to hook up my mp3 player to the old ‘beater’ I drove the last two winters.
So that’s what I do – but I would highly, highly recommend using Bluetooth. It really is a great little technology and you can usually pick up a nice adapter for under $50 on sale somewhere.
The other item which is also banned is programming your GPS while you’re driving. Am I the only one whom thinks this goes without saying?? Don’t they realize how long it would take to punch in some destination while you’re driving along the highway or city streets of a strange city? Holy Dangerous!! Although I did just see on Buy.com’s site that they have a Garmin nüvi 255W Automobile Navigator on sale and it features text-to-speech technology and has some pretty good reviews.
I really get a kick out of the people who live in Charlottetown, generally do no travelling at all, and use a GPS system in their car.. HA HA HA.. getting lost in the big city of Charlottetown are ya? 
