{"id":94902,"date":"2017-10-31T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=94902"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:44:48","slug":"your-smartphone-might-be-about-to-get-you-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/your-smartphone-might-be-about-to-get-you-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Your smartphone might be about to get you in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is trouble in paradise, and it is all because of a <strong>smartphone-fueled regression into stupidity<\/strong>. In a bid to try and prevent people from staring at their phones <strong>while crossing the road,<\/strong> the Hawaiian city of Honolulu has started fining people up to $99. First offenders will have to pony up $35, but second and third offenses shoot up to $75 and $99, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t just mobile phones in their crosshairs, either. As the bill states:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo pedestrian shall cross a street or highway while viewing a mobile electronic device\u2026text messaging device, paging device, personal digital assistant, laptop computer, video game, or digital photographic device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to music and you <strong>can even talk on your phone,<\/strong> but you must not look\u00a0<strong>at any type of screen when you\u2019re crossing the road<\/strong>. There are some exceptions, such as emergency workers checking on calls they\u2019ve received; but Facebook is out of the question, and don\u2019t even think about Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Our Softonic Solutions users are talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.softonic.com\/what-are-the-best-bluetooth-earphones-with-mic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the best bluetooth handsfree kits<\/a>. <strong>Join the conversation now!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How would you feel if somebody fined you $35 for reading a text message?<\/strong>\u00a0Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is trouble in paradise, and it is all because of a smartphone-fueled regression into stupidity. In a bid to try and prevent people from staring at their phones while crossing the road, the Hawaiian city of Honolulu has started fining people up to $99. First offenders will have to pony up $35, but second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/your-smartphone-might-be-about-to-get-you-in-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your smartphone might be about to get you in trouble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":94903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-94902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328480,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902\/revisions\/328480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=94902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}