Thread: OOPS Who got pinged using phone driving RRC ?

Obviously an RRC but I couldn’t read the article as it’s behind a paywall.

Serves them right if they get a nice expensive ticket. Beats me why drivers can't keep their hands off the things or turn them off whilst driving. I suspect the vast majority of the chat is just normal crap which could wait until they're out of the seat.
If mine rings when driving I answer via Bluetooth and tell them I'll ring back which I do.
AlanH.

Love this. Lost count of how many times I have not got though a change of Lights only due to some VIP was deeply engrossed on their phone

Death and Taxes are not optional apparently - Fines are an optional tax. Love them myself and try very hard not to be a hypocrite

Double the price please!

And yet it's perfectly ok to interact with the massive screens cars come with today? Even the workmanlike Grenadier has a screen bigger than most laptops, and don't tell me drivers won't be looking at that. Let alone the ones fitted to Teslas.

Sorry, James, but it is hypocrisy, but not on an individual level.

As for that pic, I was once busted at Nhil for using my phone. I wasn't, I was changing my audiobook on an iPod ( yes, that long ago ). My phone was secure in a holder. Using a phone when driving was illegal, using an iPod, a GPS, a computer screen dispatcher, a two way radio all were not, but my Highway Patrol man did not car... but the Magistrate did.

Originally Posted by Tins

And yet it's perfectly ok to interact with the massive screens cars come with today? Even the workmanlike Grenadier has a screen bigger than most laptops, and don't tell me drivers won't be looking at that. Let alone the ones fitted to Teslas.

Sorry, James, but it is hypocrisy, but not on an individual level.

As for that pic, I was once busted at Nhil for using my phone. I wasn't, I was changing my audiobook on an iPod ( yes, that long ago ). My phone was secure in a holder. Using a phone when driving was illegal, using an iPod, a GPS, a computer screen dispatcher, a two way radio all were not, but my Highway Patrol man did not car... but the Magistrate did.

Fair call to an extent John. The 2005 disco did have TV if not moving! It was clearly Pre Digital and honesty only my kids only played with it when I was out of it shopping. Screen size is about the size of a larger mobile phone Didn't work nearly as well

Not pulling back on my wish for 10x the fines for tossers - Get off the road if playing with themselves is fine Add Make up, hair or the odd mobile fight we all may have seen ( NOT ME for either)

We still have a iPod NOT in the car promise.


EDIT- Kids just laughted and side its an "IPAD" we have - Sorry

I read the paper on one that is 10 year old most mornings and do Sudoku

I know a guy who has had 5,cost him $25K.(company registered vehicles are billed $5K until the driver is identified)

He runs a huge plumbing business,and had the phone sitting on his lap,talking on the bluetooth.

The issue is, the first infringement notice took six weeks to arrive in his maibox,so by the time he got it and changed his phone habits,another 4 pics had been taken.

Six weeks for the processing is just a joke,but not worth complaining about,they wont give too hoots,they just want/need,are desperate for the revenue.

I bet it wont be long before they have some type facial recognition,so the tickets won't be able to be signed over to someone else,or the driver not able to be identified.Which happens a lot,particularly with company vehicles.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

The 2005 disco did have TV if not moving! It was clearly Pre Digital and honesty only my kids only played with it when I was out of it shopping.

I converted the TV in my 2003 L322 Rangie from analogue to digital but reception is pretty poor most of the time. Even though it is still capable of being watched whilst moving, I only (rarely) use it when stopped and waiting for my wife (I haven’t disabled watching it whilst moving).

Converting it was a waste of money, these days watching something on my phone is far better.

My next job (one day) is to remove the CD stacker and replace it with an Arduino media centre. I have the bits but not the enthusiasm.

[QUOTE=Tins;3182878]And yet it's perfectly ok to interact with the massive screens cars come with today? Even the workmanlike Grenadier has a screen bigger than most laptops, and don't tell me drivers won't be looking at that. Let alone the ones fitted to Teslas.

Sorry, James, but it is hypocrisy, but not on an individual level.

I couldn't agree more. Far too many things for drivers to look at and play with when what they should be doing is looking out of the window and thinking of what they're doing behind the wheel and where they're going. An old song from many moons ago went something like 'keep your hands on the wheel and eyes/mind on the road'.
Although they may not have had phones in those days there were other distractions like the mini skirt.
AlanH.