Mikes10 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 or 'the easy way to collect six points on your license', see the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39118523 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Good,let us hope it gets enforced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkleyIan Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 message just isn't getting through. I saw 3 drivers using the phone on my ride to work this morning . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grand Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 about time should put fine up to a thousand and six points for every driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 It needs to be kept in proportion to other driving offences and to the real risk that is present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jomie Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 The best advice from the link: Edmund King, president of the AA, said too many drivers were addicted to their phones. "We need to break this addiction and the best way is for drivers to go cold turkey - turn off the phone and put it in the glove box." Manufacturers of cars should also stop including hands free Bluetooth technology. Any telephone call, hands free or not is a distraction from the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkleyIan Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 It needs to be kept in proportion to other driving offences and to the real risk that is present. 22 people were killed and 99 seriously injured in accidents where a driver was using their phone in 2015 ---------- Post added 01-03-2017 at 09:25 ---------- The best advice from the link: Manufacturers of cars should also stop including hands free Bluetooth technology. Any telephone call, hands free or not is a distraction from the road. One of the cars that went by me today was a Range Rover Vogue, a £75K car with Bluetooth as standard ...driver still talking on the handset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtkate Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 The best advice from the link: Manufacturers of cars should also stop including hands free Bluetooth technology. Any telephone call, hands free or not is a distraction from the road. If you want to go down that road then perhaps we should also ban radios and children from cars as they are also a distraction? I don't agree with removing handsfree tech at all. Things like Siri make it pretty easy to do almost anything you need to with no more distraction than talking to passenger. Unless you want to send a text that makes sense. We can't rollback modern life and there should be a way to allow safe driving and minimal phone usage to exist alongside each other. Perhaps disable a phone unless it's being used handsfree while within the confines of the car when the engine is running? The technology must exist for this already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchemist Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Perhaps disable a phone unless it's being used handsfree while within the confines of the car when the engine is running? The technology must exist for this already. The problem with that is that it would also affect any passengers phones and depending on the radius of the jamming any people outside the vehicle at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkleyIan Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 there is at least one country where the law says a mobile phone not in a cradle has to be out of reach of the driver at all times. Off to find out which one it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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