Georgia’s new hands-free driving law is coming and coming soon, folks — it’s time to get ready.
“Get a mount, get used to it, get used to getting that phone out of your hands,” WSB Radio traffic reporter Mark McKay said.
Gov. Nathan Deal signed the Hands-Free Georgia Act — which prohibits motorists from handling their cellphones while driving — into law last month and it goes into effect July 1.
With that in mind, McKay, Mark Arum and their colleagues at News 95.5/AM750 WSB hosted a roundtable discussion Tuesday night with other representatives from the radio station, Channel 2 Action News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as law enforcement and government officials and other experts.
[ LISTEN TO WSB RADIO’S ‘HANDS FREE’ TRAFFIC ROUNDTABLE HERE ]
They answered a full range of questions from “traffic troopers” in the studio audience, other listeners and readers and from social media. If the roundtable made anything clear, it’s that there’s still a lot of confusion about the law, what’s allowed and what isn’t.