Thread: Important video message

wearing a seat belt or relying upon any other safety device will not prevent you the driver, having a crash, its a crash....rarely an accident.....you crash because of the way you drive.....theres nothing accidental about that and until you start relying on yourself to prevent crashes and not safety devices that try to prevent injury as result of your crash then nothing's going to change. You are going to keep on killing yourselves and/or your loved ones. the alternative answer is what engineers are starting to do and that is take away the vehicle control from the driver. I love that. I believe only rigorously certified drivers should have a license just like airplane pilots.

Texting...

If Texting is such a great contributor to the road toll then why have we not seen an increase in the road toll consistent with the introduction of SMS capable phones, increasing as the popularity of texting rises.

Not saying it is a good idea or safe but enforcing the don't touch your phone rule seems similar to the speed camera enforcement.
Easy to enforce - Check, touch your phone and you are gone
Easy for Politicians to be seen to be "getting tough on motorists" - Check
Good revenue raiser - Check.

Scientifically proven to reduce the road toll - Someone go buy me a researcher.

Regards,
Tote

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDsH64sqNY]#PubLooShocker - YouTube[/ame]

a different tack, I dont really think this is that great an idea!

VW 'Eyes on the road' ad brings danger of texting and driving to the movies - Autoblog

Here's hoping they run the same thing here.

Personally, I reckon they should be equipping cars with a device that renders phones useless whilst the car is running full stop. Maybe then drivers will pay more attention to the road, as well as passengers paying attention to what's going on around them too.

Ingenious and very effective. Would work a treat here with a cinema full of teens and 20 something's.
Regards
Robbo

Originally Posted by robbotd5

Ingenious and very effective. Would work a treat here with a cinema full of teens and 20 something's.
Regards
Robbo

and 30, 40 and 50 year olds too

In my job, I'm on the road all the time. the amount of people I see using a mobile phone and texting while driving is unbelievable. Actually it is a sackable offence in my job to use a mobile phone while driving a company vehicle. Company policy is, vehicle parked, ignition off, maxi-brake on and driver outside the vehicle to use a phone.