Attention Motorists: Only Eight More Days of Blowing Second-Hand Smoke in Your Kid's Face

(Ansel Adams, "Freeway Interchange, Los Angeles," 1967.)

Blogging.la compiles (via AAA's Westways magazine) the new motorist laws that go into effect on Jan. 1:

• You cannot use any product that blocks your license plate from being read by any kind of electronic traffic device.
• You cannot smoke in a car if there are children in the car, whether you are driving or parked.
• If you commit a two point violation (DUI, hit and run, speed contests, evading an officer, etc) you cannot go to traffic school and have it cleared off your record.
• Depending on local jurisdictions, school zones can be changed to 15mph up to 500 feet from school when children are present. No matter the speed limit is, just make it a habit to drive slowly and carefully around schools.
• For new vehicles sold or leased on or after 1/1/08, automakers MUST provide the key codes to a registered locksmith if you lose your keys and need to have new ones made. (BMW and Mercedes make their own and they must send you replacement keys overnight.)

Hey, I don't stick spray adhesive on my license plate to evade electronic traffic devices, I just like the extra-shiny look.