Did anyone else hear this on the radio?

It is now illegal to leave your car running and unattended even if it is in your driveway! So thoes mornings when its cold outside and you want to get into a warm car, cant do it anymore. Cops are roaming the neighborhoods and will be placing tickets on your windshield. The reason....they're trying to cut down on the amount of stolen cars in the area.


lame ass reason to put money in the cities pockets.

 

so they give YOU a ticket so THEY don't have to do their job.

 

basicly, there tired of looking for stolen cars so they give people a ticket for warming up there own car

 

How would this affect those that have remote starters on their cars? I know with mine, that if you don't have the key in the ignition and turned to run, when you push on the brake to put the car in gear, the car dies.

 

it doesnt matter. if a cop drives by your car and its running without you in it.


Ticket

 

I would think it would be easy to fight it if you have some sort of remote start on your car. It's not like you're leaving the keys in it for them to just get in the car and drive off.

 

^ I'm sure if you have some kind of proof of remote start you could fight it. This would never fly in an area with a very cold climate such as Michigan or the Dakotas etc... remote starts are a necessity there. My boss is from Michigan and has a newer Altima or Maxima (whichever one is better) and he starts it from the 5th floor of the office everyday. His remote beeps to tell him the car has started. By the time he gets down and it it it's all warm and cozy.

 

shoooot i start my car n leave it running quite often, no alarm, no remote start, BUUUT my key does come out of my ignition, soo i always take the key with me....ya know soo if somebody does take the car they really cant cut it off...they can only drive it till it runs outta gas, n well i mean if somebodies gonna take the car anyway, their gonna freakin take it...

 

As long as it's an automatic. It's also illegal to have remote start on a manual tranny.

 

afaik, it's always been illegal to leave an unattended car running in VA.