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Earlier this year California started allowing car owners choose from three new personalized plates, check it out.

California Legacy License Plates. Effective January 1, 2013, DMV will accept applications for a series of three specialized license plates that replicate plates from California’s past. Motorists will be able to choose from a minimum of three styles: yellow background with black lettering, black background with yellow lettering, and blue background with yellow lettering.

If you get pulled over and don't have your paper insurance card, you can NOW use the electronic version, your phone (insurance company apps). Below you'll find the exact quote straight from the California driving hand book.


Effective January 1, 2013

Financial Responsibility

Allows a person to provide, when requested by law enforcement, a paper version of proof of financial responsibility or an electronic version using a mobile electronic device.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/

CA Department of Motor Vehicles Publications The Department of Motor Vehicles enhances traffic safety through the testing and monitoring of drivers; protects identity by ensuring the integrity of DMV's database and the integrity of the licensing, identification, and registration documents it issues.

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California Court Bans Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving

In California, drivers can now be pulled over for using their GPS while driving. Extending the state’s current ban on texting while driving, an appellate court in California v. Spriggs argued that the ”distraction would be present whether the wireless telephone was being used as a telephone, a GPS navigator a clock or a device for sending and receiving text messages and emails.”

So-called “distracted driving” laws have a mixed history of efficacy. In 2010, a study in the American Journal of Public Health found that “Any reduction in accidents following texting bans is short-lived, however, with accidents returning to near former levels within a few months.”

The most recent study, however, found that such laws are “moderately successful,” but only if they are strictly enforced. The study, to be published in next month’s American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, only looked at scenarios where the blame could be squarely placed on (digitally) distracted driving: single-vehicle, single-occupancy crashes. In some states, for instance, police cannot pull a driver over for texting while driving, but only add on a citation to another violation. In states with “strong” bans, driving fatalities were reduced 8 percent.

In Spriggs, the judge left it open as to whether the law should also apply to checking things like email, or whether drivers could safely use a hands-free version of GPS. Either way, the National Safety Council warns, “there is no research or evidence that indicates voice-activated technologies eliminate or even reduce the distraction to the drivers’ mind.”

Looks like we won’t be safe on the road until we all get robotic cars. Appropriately enough, thanks to Google’s powerful lobbying, they’re now legal in California.

Resource: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/california-court-bans-checking-smartphone-maps-while-driving/

Here are some California Driving Facts:

-Approximately 16 million traffic tickets are issued each year in California.

-California is ranked #14 most likely state to receive a traffic ticket.

-California is ranked the #4 state to issue speeding tickets.

-Approximately 1.8 million traffic tickets are issued in LA county every year.

-On average 5-6 million drivers get ticketed for a 1-point violation in California every year.