In April this year drivers will be fined for using mobile phones if caught on the M4 mobile phone use detection system. Fair enough, we have some drongos, like the tool who was caught using both his hands to use his phone while his mate in the passenger seat held the wheel, but, seriously, is a camera system dedicated to detecting mobile use really needed? What's next, fun police?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @05:09PM
Given what I see in Florida, the answer is "yes", I would love to have something detect the idiots who don't have their full attention on the road. If the consequences were only to those drivers I would be less concerned, but they are aiming at me.
But perhaps the answer will lie in Self Driving cars so that we can all sit back and text/watch videos, etc. while we are leisurely transported to our destinations. Yep, I have seen a guy with a video on his dashboard driving along trying to pay attention to the video and the road at the same time.
We all suck at multi-tasking and shouldn't try.