Distracted Driving
Phone laws, texting bans, and distraction-related rules.
Distracted Driving rules in New York follow the federal framework with state-specific limits, distances, and exceptions. The practice questions below are drawn from the New York driver handbook, so they track the state's own rules.
Distracted Driving questions, New York edition.
Each question links through to a full explanation, the rule it tests, and a citation back to the manual.
- How many license points does a New York driver receive for improper cell phone use (talking on a hand-held mobile phone while driving)? →
- Under New York's hand-held mobile phone ban, and outside the emergency and official-duty exemptions, a driver may pick up the phone for which purpose? →
- According to the New York manual, what defines a hands-free mobile telephone? →
- Under New York law, when may a driver use a hands-free mobile telephone? →
- Which driver is exempt from New York's ban on speaking into a hand-held mobile telephone while driving? →
- What is the maximum fine for a first-offense texting-while-driving conviction in New York? →
- A driver's second texting conviction falls within 18 months of the first. What is the maximum fine for that second offense? →
- A driver has three texting convictions, all committed within 18 months. What is the maximum fine for that third offense? →
- A driver with a junior license is convicted of texting while driving for the first time. What license penalty applies? →
- A junior-license driver is convicted of texting again, within six months of their license being restored from a prior texting suspension. What is the minimum penalty? →
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