Drivers who use a Mobile Phone whilst Driving

[Marina]

It's a stupid law. Driving whilst using a mobile is no more dangerous than talking to someone else in the car.

It's purely a revenue raising hidden additional tax.

It's not talking which is the problem usually, but dialling.

Also faffing about trying to find the thing on the front passenger seat when it rings, or even leaning back to grub around on the back seats, if you haven't positioned it conveniently beforehand.

Some crazy woman was caught actually *texting* while driving, and that has to be far worse then even dialling.

[PAH]

It's not talking which is the problem usually, but dialling.

Yeah it's the distraction that's the real problem. Taking your eyes off the road for any significant period (i.e. seconds) can be disastrous.

So having a child in a back seat can be just as dangerously distracting as a mobile phone.

[Cyberman]

It's a stupid law. Driving whilst using a mobile is no more dangerous than talking to someone else in the car.

It's purely a revenue raising hidden additional tax.

You're absolutely wrong on this.

You do not take one hand off the steering wheel for a few minutes while you talk to a passenger!! There is a very big difference and having seen a guy on a mobile phone slam into a car in front of him I've seen the evidence to prove it.

[basshead]

I find it really difficult to play Snake whilst driving.

I don't find playing with my snake difficult though, its getting the tissues out that's hazardous.

[PAH]

Contraception is a wonderful thing...

I had a vision of trying to suck a stick of blackpool rock, before realising the wrapper was still on. Very odd.

[Weltchy]

I lost the will to live trying to read those options

Attention Span Slipping guru?

[threaded]

On a short stretch of road without a cyclepath a guy went past in a van whilst using his mobile phone. I noticed, because he was a bit too close and at first I thought he had a flat tire, so was looking. Well, a little incensed I shouted "Put that phone down!"

Well, he dropped the phone instantly, both hands straight onto the wheel, and he started looking around for wherever the source of the command came from. I was now in his near-side blind spot.

"You really are a hopeless prat!" was my next comment. I could see he was seriously freaked and I turned off onto a cycle path that just started there.

Gets to the next set of lights and chummy is still looking around, and looking completely freaked out. I looked him square in the eye, and I could see he was trying to act like he didn't think he was going insane.

He really hadn't got a clue where the shouts came from.

threaded in "one good deed every day" mode

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I wonder what would have happened if he had videoed the incident?

Maybe prosecuted for invasion of privacy?

There's no such offence.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Incredible marketing how it seems to have achieved a similar notoriety as drink driving.

People just love having something to moan about.

Same thing with speed cameras. If everyone's so upset why don't we all just take off our number plates. They can't arrest us all!

On the other hand , there are those of us who have seen the effects first hand. I'm not upset about speed cameras, I've come up with a totally foolproof way of avoiding those fines. Same thing with mobile phone use - I will never be convicted of that as I don't do it. It really isn't necessary, and most people (including the dead one) I've known who thought they could use the phone and drive as if they weren't using it, were wrong.

[threaded]

There's no such offence.

In Denmark you can get in trouble if you release a video of someone commiting a criminal offence. A jeweller put one up on YouTube of a raid on his shop. Which sucks, 'cause alot of my best snips from the film I'm making are of people commiting criminal offences.

Apparently I have to make sure they cannot be identified, which is quite difficult, as it's a small country and hence only a small population of idiots...