New penalties for using a hand held phone whilst driving

[Dallas]

On the news this evening it was said that using/looking at a mobile phone touch screen is no different than using an inbuilt touch screen that is incorporated into the vehicles dashboard, e.g touch screens on new vehicles and double din car stereos etc.

[BarryH]

No means of communication in the car at all.End of. If you want to ring some one or answer a message, pull over and get out of the car.Sheer laziness otherwise.

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by BarryH

No means of communication in the car at all.End of. If you want to ring some one or answer a message, pull over and get out of the car.Sheer laziness otherwise.

Don't forget to gag your passengers before you set off

[BarryH]

Originally Posted by coolcat

Don't forget to gag your passengers before you set off

Or put them in the boot as well!!

[FLYER]

Originally Posted by BarryH

Or put them in the boot as well!!

Or my personal favourite .

Boot em out ..

I do love it so ...

[Darcydog]

Originally Posted by coolcat

Don't forget to gag your passengers before you set off

Oh God yes...... - My late MiL was a wonderful woman but on any car journey it was like she had to fill any quiet with constant inane chatter.

Talk about wearing

I would arrive feeling my brain had been totally frazzled and pulled out of my head through my ears.

[macafee2]

Originally Posted by coolcat

Time to think about hands free in the car peeps..........we can help with that

Seriously though, it's a good thing that this is being clamped down on......it's being openly abused by just about every other motorist it would seem and too many lives are being destroyed as a consequence !

reports indicate that hands free is also quite a distraction. if I call someone and find they are driving I terminate the call. people put their call before the law and safety.

macafee2

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by macafee2

reports indicate that hands free is also quite a distraction. if I call someone and find they are driving I terminate the call. people put their call before the law and safety.

macafee2

Reports indicated that diesel was better for us than petrol.......

As I've already said, the act of doing anything other than concentrating on driving is a distraction.
There isn't a person on here that hasn't allowed themselves some form of distraction whilst at the wheel .

I agree that we must all try and minimise these distractions but let's have some perspective...........or perhaps we all need to hope the driverless car is upon us sooner than later.......take the distracted human out of the chain

[Jules]

Prison sentence might sort it

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Originally Posted by Parker

It's shocking to see people texting and driving. We wouldn't read a book whilst at the wheel so why a mobile? When I was in my early twenties, I was fiddling with the radio to find a station lost all attention on the road, result hit the curb; what if the car mounted it and people were there. Shook me up and from that day I always made sure the radio was set before setting off, thankfully technology has moved on with RDS etc. Now.

Mobiles you just get so involved your mind considers nothing else, let alone controlling a car at speed.

When I was much younger, I remember seeing a truck driver reading g a magazine whilst on the M20. Foot off cruise control on that model of truck...