DRIVERS: Avoid getting prosecuted for using your phone while driving. Simply pop your mobile inside a large shell and the police will think you are listening to the sea.
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This was posted on Twitter by the Surrey Police to clear up questions about the new law:
DRIVERS: Avoid getting prosecuted for using your phone while driving. Simply pop your mobile inside a large shell and the police will think you are listening to the sea.
Couldn't we simply create software whereby mobile phones are inoperable whilst moving above the running pace of a human? If we use Usain Bolt's pace then that should rule everyone else out.
They already track where we are / how many steps taken la de da de da
At first I thought hat is such a good idea, but then passengers wouldn't be able to use their phone either.
Though thinking about it again, is that such a problem?
Of course a cynical view might be that zero money would be raised and alternative ways to penalise the driver would need to be sought.
You're still allowed to take calls/play music while driving, as long as it's in a holder.
It's all a load of bollox. They could bring back hanging as a punishment for using your phone while driving, but if there are no coppers on the road to catch anyone, people will carry on regardless.
I was behind a car on the M4 this afternoon that was all over the place, going over the lines a few times before suddenly swerving back into lane. When I overtook the car there was a young woman driving, she had a couple of kids in baby seats in her car, and was fiddling with her phone, sending a text or whatever.
And I'm sure we've all seen this, I do on a daily basis. But you just can't do anything about it.
Assuming you are replying to my post Colonel, I was replying to Arfur's suggestion that a phone could be disabled if travelling above running pace, even a passenger's phone would be disabled.
By the way thank you for your attachment explaining that it is illegal to use phone sat nav without a holder which I have (perhaps naively) done on a few occasions with it just sat on the dashboard.
Radio 5 Live today was full of police people leaving as morale was at an all time low due to massive cuts since 2010 and everybody was stuck behind desks filling in paperwork. The revloutionist in me screams 'Yay'. Then I think, oh ****.
'Traffic Safe' cameras REPLACED traffic police. FACT. These revenue raising robots will not spot mobile phone use, drink / drug drivers, middle lane hoggers, dangerous driver etc, yet we've seemingly accepted them.
You really all should listen to 5 live from earlier today to realise what all these cuts have done to our public services. We seem to be just about ok right now. But I see problems everywhere shortly.
If everybody walked out then we possibly get the services we all need?
That screed stated that the penalty will double when a driver is caught. However, I would suggest that the penalty will be increased at a point in time and, possibly, before anyone is caught flouting the law.
Then he would be breaking the law taking a photo while driving
How come police can use radios (not the ones that take a cd and tune to radio 1 sort) whilst driving? If we all got them then we could still chat merrily away whilst driving around.
Here you go then:---
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Ringing I think would be ok. As others have said police have radios.
It is the texting that takes up far too much of your attention. All eyes off the road and one hand on the wheel. Things like changing song on spotify as well.
Obviously they can't split them.
The nation's motorway driving - I'll score 2/10.
On the M4 on Sunday, an absolute nightmare as the left hand lane became redundant with people sticking to the middle lane. I stick to 70 mph, and stick to the left hand lane unless I need to overtake. This often requires me to move two lanes to overtake (I refuse to undertake, although it is tempting), and two lanes to go back in.
The funny thing is, when the middle lane becomes clear, these same clowns move up to 80 mph and overtake me. Now, if they like doing that speed, why not move to the right lane to overtake the people in the middle lane slowing them down? Then you'll see the same car stuck in the middle lane again doing 65 as the middle lane gets congested. Again, requires two lane changes to overtake and two to get back to the CORRECT lane.
Someone on a forum I visited once argued that the left lane was for speeds up to 60mph, middle for 60-70 and right for 70+. Clueless. Most accidents happen during lane changes, and these clowns treble my lane changing requirements on long drives. They also, effectively, reduce the motorway to two lanes. I have flashed people (naughty me, but it gets frustrating) to move into the left lane when that is clear - but they are too petrified to do it. Where is their logic - if we all drove like that, you'd only need one lane!