Donate Car to Charity California, Donate Car for Tax Credit, Donate Cars in MA, Donate Your Car Sacramento, How to Donate A Car in California, Donate Your Car for Kids, Donate a Car in Maryland, Donating a Car in Maryland, Donate Cars Illinois, Donate Old Cars to Charity, Met Auto, Car Donate Don’t drive distracted! Cheap $5 to $10 hands-free options are available Author placeholder image Clark Howard Staff | June 30, 2018 10:00 am Home Cars Don’t drive distracted! Cheap $5 to $10 hands-free options are available Share This Article hands-free mount 3 Image Credit: Clark.com Team Clark is adamant that we will never write content influenced by or paid for by an advertiser. To support our work, we do make money from some links to companies and deals on our site. Learn more about our guarantee here. Advertisement With all the improvements technology has made to our lives, distracted driving remains a sore spot for motorists, pedestrians and law enforcement alike. That’s prompted 15 states to put distracted-driving laws on the books that forbid you from holding a mobile device while you’re behind the wheel. Come July 1, the state of Georgia will join that group. RELATED: 9 great deals on cell phone holders and Bluetooth adapters for cars A cheap option for hands-free driving Christa DiBiase, our General Manager here at Clark.com, is already complying with the upcoming Georgia law thanks to a couple of cheap purchases she recently made. For months now, Christa has had something called a Pop Socket on her phone. The Pop Socket is a large button you stick on the back of your phone that expands and contracts thanks to an accordion mechanism. pop socket american flag When you have a Pop Socket on your phone, the socket can prop your phone on its side, or you can use the socket itself as a grip. pop socket Some people find holding the phone by the Pop Socket while talking is more comfortable than doing so without — particularly for long conversations. Pop Sockets like the one pictured above routinely sell for anywhere from $2 to $10 on Amazon. But with the advent of the July 1 distracted driving law in Georgia, Christa still needed a way to be able to look at Waze while driving. She needed her phone to be at eye level, but she couldn’t have it in her hands, of course. That’s why she purchased a $10 vehicle mount for her Pop Socket on Amazon. pop socket mount It sticks on her dashboard at eye level near her steering wheel and she can easily hook her phone on it before driving and remove her phone from it when she’s parked at her final destination. Here’s an illustration of the process: pop socket mount pop socket mount 2 hands-free mount 3 pop socket mount 4 Of course, a lot of physical stores offer similar solutions — making this one purchase you don’t necessarily have to do online. Among them are Five Below and Walmart. Walmart offers a magnetic mounted mobile phone holder for $5 that looks like this: magnetic phone holder Five Below, meanwhile, has several options also priced at $5 including this one that attaches to your vehicle’s air vent: five below phone car mount The point is, there are a lot of cheap options out there to help you comply with distracted-driver laws in your state! More auto stories on Clark.com: Best and worst auto insurance companies Buying gas from a station on this list is better for your car Need new tires? These are the 10 best places to buy them
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