Illegal to Sign While Driving?

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Dear Abby: Sign language and driving don't mix
Published: 2:00 AM - 11/07/10
Dear Abby: A woman driving the car ahead of me was swerving and weaving in and out of the next lane. She would slow down, then speed up, and I thought she might have been drunk.
As I pulled up beside her, I realized she was using sign language to communicate with her passenger. She would turn her head toward the passenger, signing with both hands and ignoring her responsibilities of being a good driver. Is this legal? — Safe Driver in Lexington, S.C.
Dear Safe Driver: According to the Beverly Hills, Calif., Police Department, use of sign language is legal as long as it doesn't interfere with safe driving. The state of California has a basic speed law that states: "No person shall drive a vehicle upon a state highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event which endangers the safety of persons or property."
In the case you have described, the person who was signing was in violation of this law. I'm sure your state has similar regulations.
Dear Abby: This may seem like a silly question, but what is the proper thing to do if fruit drops on the floor at the grocery store? — Wondering In Columbus, Ga.
Dear Wondering: I addressed your query to the manager of a grocery chain in the Los Angeles area. He said: "Because it is assumed that people wash their fruit at home before eating it, the fallen item should simply be placed on its stand. Of course, if it has split in two, cracked or been crushed, you should bring it to the attention of an employee working in the produce department."
It's my opinion that, instead of replacing the fruit in the display, a store employee should be informed so the item can be sold at a discount the next day.
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I know that texting while driving is now illegal in many places. I wonder that signing is illegal while driving?
 
bad deaf drivers

Its not the sign language that's the problem. Its the driver not paying attention. So yes the deaf driver gets a ticket for unsafe operation of a motor vechile.
Maybe some
ADers remember about 6 years or so ago, when a carload of deaf near NTID died in a crash cuz the driver was signing?
 
what next? illegal talking while driving????
 
Signing while driving should be ILLEGAL! I am tired of car accidents!!! I have been in three accidents and one of them was because the driver was SIGNING!
 
Hubby (TCS) got a speeding ticket once because he was signing and not watching his speed while driving.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
Signing while driving should be ILLEGAL! I am tired of car accidents!!! I have been in three accidents and one of them was because the driver was SIGNING!
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So soccer moms talking to their over-active kids should be outlawed? A relative of mine got into a car accident because she took her eyes off the road while yelling at the kids to calm down.

So signing or speaking... wouldn't make a difference.
 
souggy said:
So soccer moms talking to their over-active kids should be outlawed? A relative of mine got into a car accident because she took her eyes off the road while yelling at the kids to calm down.

So signing or speaking... wouldn't make a difference.
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I think it depends on the environment, if it is a busy road then driver should give 100% attention to their driving. Sometimes here you can drive several hours without seeing another car, or even a bend in the road, you need to talk to someone then! :aw:
 
JClarke said:
what next? illegal talking while driving????
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Must use both of hands on steering wheels.
 
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People hollar out the windows all the time....."Just shut up....and drive"!
 
What's next that it would be illegal for any deaf to ride in the car. Do you know how many of them need to read lips (speechread) especially in a noisy car? (I made my mother and husband to look at me when they drive.. they couldn't help it when I kept saying "what?")
 
there is no law for not use communicate while driving behind text/call/etc
 
We don't need law to make illegal to communicate while driving and most important is use common sense and should to know when you are driving.
 
What about taking eyes to change radio stations, to look at the GPS, or a parent turning around to stop their kids from fighting in the backseat, or putting make up in the car. What about them? Let's make all that illegal.
 
I try not to sign when I drive. It does make me steer off the road a bit. When I bring on a deaf passenger, I tell them that I can't talk while driving. They understand and keep it to the minimum or when we're stopped at red lights.

Of course, there are still some careless deaf drivers out there, but if they feel confident enough to carry on long conversations while driving... It's their own choice although not the smartest one.
 
It doesn't matter if you sign. Same as people's mouth, they talk and realize he or she didn't see something happen back there or whatever is. It just lose their focus like us.
 
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