App For Breaking the Law

Heard an ad for this App on the radio:

MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey today announced a new smart phone app that provides real time travel conditions along the Interstate 93 corridor in Massachusetts.

The Real Time Travel App, “RTTM”, displays color-coded, current travel times on I-93 to and from Boston in real time. Boston-based transportation IT service company, KCUS Inc., developed the app, which follows the real-time travel message board traffic management system installed along I-93 earlier this year. The data displayed by the app is the same information displayed on the I-93 travel time message boards.

Also in the article:

As always, MassDOT reminds drivers to avoid using their smart phones while driving and check travel conditions before they drive.

From the Law:

Section 13B. (a) No operator of a motor vehicle shall use a mobile telephone, or any handheld device capable of accessing the internet, to manually compose, send or read an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle. For the purposes of this section, an operator shall not be considered to be operating a motor vehicle if the vehicle is stationary and not located in a part of the public way intended for travel.

Wicked useful app!

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One Response to App For Breaking the Law

  1. Eric Wilner says:

    Wow! A real time travel app? Not just something that makes whoosh-whoosh noises? Oh, wait… interpolating a hyphen in the wrong place, there.
    Depending on how the info is displayed and updated, it might be (legally) useful if you had a dashboard cellphone holder or something, so you could just launch the app before getting on the road. But, then, I’m a little unclear about the definition of “manually… read an electronic message” unless the message in question is displayed in Braille. I always read mine optically.

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