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Mobile Phone Use In Cars
I have always said the "powers that be" should have a HUGE advertising campaign on the use of mobile phones while driving. A bit like they did with seat belts years ago.
There would then be no excuse when they are caught.
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Some people said they didn't realise it was illegal and some didn't care.
There would then be no excuse when they are caught.
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Some people said they didn't realise it was illegal and some didn't care.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well it would not hurt, but ignorance of the law is not an excuse and to be honest anyone using tech like a mobile claiming they didnt know after all the publicity on it is clearly lying anyway.
The most effective way is for plod to have campaign (like the annual drink drive campaign) and for Magistrates (if goes to court) pass maximum sentences.
Once a few people have lost their licenses (which are a privilege not a right) then it might sink in to even the thickest brain.
The most effective way is for plod to have campaign (like the annual drink drive campaign) and for Magistrates (if goes to court) pass maximum sentences.
Once a few people have lost their licenses (which are a privilege not a right) then it might sink in to even the thickest brain.
Despite all the advertising I don't think people believe how distracting using a phone whilst driving is. Perhaps the equivalence of the "speed awareness" courses should be compulsory (as well as the fine etc) for anyone caught using a phone whilst driving. The course would involve using a simulator and make two "journeys", one using and one not using a phone and show how many hazards were spotted in both cases. It's a long time now since I took my driving test - does the current test involve hazard-spotting on a simulator? If so, the mechanism already exists for the courses.
//I have always said the "powers that be" should have a HUGE advertising campaign on the use of mobile phones while driving.//
Maybe they should have a HUGE advertising campaign on the availability of 'hands-free' kits for use in cars that don't have built in technology. There's no excuse these days.
Maybe they should have a HUGE advertising campaign on the availability of 'hands-free' kits for use in cars that don't have built in technology. There's no excuse these days.
Hands free is not the solution, because people are too tempted to do things on screen nowadays - which is even more dangerous than talking.
I have a high vantage point in my lorry, and you would be amazed how many people I see checking Facebook or whatever while driving.
The only way to stop it is if people believe they will actually be caught.
I have a high vantage point in my lorry, and you would be amazed how many people I see checking Facebook or whatever while driving.
The only way to stop it is if people believe they will actually be caught.
Some cars are already fitted with an accident alert system, following a crash it automatically alerts the emergency services, giving locations etc, perhaps these could be made compulsory fitted as well. Cost, I hear you say but when the government made tachograph's compulsory a lot of owners complained about the costs involved, an average kit was about £500, this was forty years ago, and it cost fleet owners many thousands of pounds but it was made compulsory to save lives.
fitting a hands free kit/ jammer.
Inconvenient? yes, costly? certainly but which is more important, saving money or saving lives? Bigger fines might work but as most drivers have a built in "it won't happen to me" syndrome, how long will it be and how many lives lost before being fined finally works.
fitting a hands free kit/ jammer.
Inconvenient? yes, costly? certainly but which is more important, saving money or saving lives? Bigger fines might work but as most drivers have a built in "it won't happen to me" syndrome, how long will it be and how many lives lost before being fined finally works.