NORCAL SS Pillar Pods FIAT 500

**NORCAL SS** · 12-14-2016, 10:36 AM

i live in california and yet to have any officer pull myself over or customers that have have this gauge for distracted driving. That is actually bs because the chevy ss cobalt comes with a pillar gauge from factory as well as the srt10 ram.

**Southernroadrunner** · 12-14-2016, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by gundam2000

distraction to other drivers. I know, its really dumb. After fast and furious 1 came out everybody had a pillar pod with boost and afr. all the blinking light s visible to other drivers were considered distracting and therefore its illegal now.

at least my factory gps is legal here unlike California. That one I cannot understand.

I find this interesting with alot of drivers having GPS up on the dash and TV screens for kids and such in cars now. Do they stop and write tickets to those people. It would be interesting to know. I'm not familiar with the driving laws in California. All states are different. I know one town I'm familiar with in the Midwest writes tickets for stuff hanging from the inside rear view mirror. Claims it blocks drivers vision. Interesting topic.

**pizzamann95** · 12-14-2016, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Southernroadrunner

I find this interesting with alot of drivers having GPS up on the dash and TV screens for kids and such in cars now. Do they stop and write tickets to those people. It would be interesting to know. I'm not familiar with the driving laws in California. All states are different. I know one town I'm familiar with in the Midwest writes tickets for stuff hanging from the inside rear view mirror. Claims it blocks drivers vision. Interesting topic.

I was driving the inlaw's Jeep and was pulled over for a broken tail light, this was when I lived in CA. It was broken the previous day and we were going to town to pick up a new one, pretty ironic. She has a handicap placard on her rear view. The cop told us it's illegal to drive with it hanging down. It even said on the placard to remove before driving. So I get the hanging stuff on you mirror law, since it does obstruct your view. If I remember correctly, you couldn't have tv monitors in the front of the vehicle, gps was fine as long as it did not obstruct the driver's view. Most stock DVD systems had a feature where the rear monitors could show a movie while the vehicle was in gear, but not the front. I had gauge pods on my Cosworth Focus, but I only got speeding tickets and one noise ordinance ticket for loud music (for a 227bhp car, it was surprisingly quiet, a true sleeper)