Pennsylvania Motor

Why so many people think it is illegal to drive barefoot?

U.S. states Alabama: Barefoot Driving: Driving a motor vehicle by a driver bare feet is permitted. Exception: motorcycle rider. Ohio: Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a Barefoot driver is permitted but not recommended. California: Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet are not prohibited. Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire Dakota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming: Barefoot Driving: Operation of a motor vehicle by a driver with bare feet is permitted.

Quite simply because many people think (wrongly, in most countries, including the time for the U.S.) that everything that is not explicitly permitted is implicitly illegal, when in fact there are not explicitly prohibited is implicitly legal. And like many of these people are our law enforcement personal, people get fines to do things they are not legally prohibited from doing, including driving barefoot, often sheepishly paid the fines, either because they think it should be illegal if they get a fine (because they mistakenly believe that all LEO know the law and comply) or because the cost and pain of the fight against the fine in court is simply too great.

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