While operating a motor vehicle, drivers are permitted to text:
- At stop lights.
- By using voice-to-text.
- Under no circumstances. ✓
- If they can send the text without looking at the phone.
Answer: C. Under no circumstances.
Drivers are not permitted to text while operating a motor vehicle under any circumstances.
Why this is the answer
The handbook states plainly that texting while operating a motor vehicle is illegal in Florida. It also notes that state law bars drivers from using a wireless communications device in a handheld way in school crossings, school zones, and work zones. Nothing in the text creates an exception for stopped traffic, for dictating a message instead of typing it, or for quick messages sent without glancing at the screen, so the rule holds whenever you are operating the vehicle.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. At stop lights. — Waiting at a stop light does not create a texting exception, since the handbook says texting while operating a motor vehicle is illegal with no carve-out for stopped traffic.
- B. By using voice-to-text. — The handbook does not allow voice-to-text as a workaround; it forbids using a wireless device in a handheld manner in school crossings, school zones, and work zones, and says texting while driving is illegal.
- D. If they can send the text without looking at the phone. — Keeping your eyes off the phone is not a legal exception in the passage, which bans texting while operating a motor vehicle without any condition about not looking.
Remember it
Treat the phone rule as all-or-nothing: if you are operating the vehicle, you are not texting.