Many believe that using Google Glass while driving can be, if not a direct safety hazard, certainly a distraction (even automakers have admitted that it is), but is it currently illegal to wear them? A California cop certainly thinks so as he handed out a ticket to a woman who was reportedly initially pulled over for speeding.
On the ticket, the unnamed officer wrote that Cecilia Abadie was “Driving with Monitor visible to Driver (Google Glass).”
According to a CNET report, Abadie said the actual law informs motorists not to “drive a vehicle equipped with a video monitor, if the monitor is visible to the driver and displays anything other than vehicle information global mapping displays, external media player (MP3), or satellite radio information.”
Abadie posted a photo of the ticket on her Google Plus page along with a post in which she’s asking for help to understand whether the officer was right or wrong:
“A cop just stopped me and gave me a ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving! The exact line says: Driving with Monitor visible to Driver (Google Glass). Is #GoogleGlass illegal while driving or is this cop wrong??? Any legal advice is appreciated!! This happened in California. Do you know any other #GlassExplorers that got a similar ticket anywhere in the US?”
Without claiming to be legal experts, if you ask us, a lot depends on whether she was using the Google Glass (and for what use) or simply wearing the device. What do you think?
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