[email protected] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Jordan<[email protected]> wrote:
Exactly! Mine does not block my view anymore than that sticker. The road can
not be seen through the part of the windshield it blocks.
Actually, and I did not mention this previously so we must remain
quiet about it, but in Virginia no unauthorized item or any sort may
be legally affixed to any windshield. That includes privately issued
parking stickers, AAA decals, GPS devices or radio receivers.
Nothing. Even that inspection decal should not be affixed to the
windshield by the inspector if its top edge is more than four inches
above the point where the windshield meets the dash.
Only certain commercial vehicles such as taxis and garbage trucks,
yes garbage trucks, and authorized emergency vehicles are allowed to
have any view out of the windshield blocked by any device or item,
including any analog or digital electronic display apparatus.
Manufacturer mounted rear view mirrors are allowed as they are DOT
approved.
At this point in time, no unauthorized device of any sort may be
mounted to a windshield in the state of Virginia. With the growing
popularity of various devices that so many drivers want to have on
their windshields, it is only a matter of time before it comes to a
head, as is happening with cell phone use. When that occurs, you can
bet that police will seriously begin cracking down and ticketing
drivers and inspection stations wil start to flunk any vehicle that
enters the inspection bay with a device affixed to a windshield not in
accordance with the law.
Silly, extreme and unmanageable. Virginia isn't too swift in some ways.
But I guess all states have their weird laws.
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