SAN DIEGO -- During any given daylight hour, there are 660,000 American drivers using gadgets at the wheel. But while the devices themselves have become steadily more advanced, catching the drivers who use them illegally still relies on something decidedly traditional: eyes.
Commissioner Joe Farrow of the California Highway Patrol offered a glimpse in an interview Monday at the challenges officers face in enforcing anti-texting laws, even as he and others noted that doing so was critical to efforts to eliminate distracted driving.
In California, among other states, spotting a driver tapping on a cellphone isn’t enough to issue a ticket: Law enforcement officers must get visual confirmation that the driver is exchanging a digital message on his or her phone -- all while they’re driving beside the suspected offender in a marked patrol car, Farrow explained.
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