Comment Re:Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark (Score 1) 1440
Yet another reason to drive stick! If you're stopped at a light, you're not in gear... unless you're one of those asshats who loves to ride their clutch, in which case you deserve to be ticketed for putting undue wear on your throw-out bearing.
I assume that the law makes a concession for cars with manual transmissions and doesn't blanketly assume that all us fat 'mericans have automatic transmissions now. If this happened to someone driving stick, you couldn't use dashcam footage to prove your reverse lights flickered. But shouldn't the burden of proof be on the LEO? Shouldn't they have to verify that you car was in neutral or not when you were texting?
Also, this raises the question: if my car is rolling and I shut the engine off and put it in neutral and just coast, can I then legally text?