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posted by martyb on Friday January 04 2019, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the I^W-we-see-what-you-did-there dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ledow on Friday January 04 2019, @06:56PM (2 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Friday January 04 2019, @06:56PM (#782176) Homepage

    Biased much?

    I'd gladly have a million cameras on the road if they caught:

    - People who drink / drug and drive.
    - People who text and drive.
    - People who drive unsafe and unmaintained vehicles (I once tried to flag down a woman in an SUV doing 90mph+ with a completely flat tyre... I literally couldn't get near, even with traffic...)
    - People who cut lanes and otherwise drive dangerously.

    I already am perfectly happy and accept cameras in the use of capturing:

    - People who drive over the speed limit, which has been set for over 50 years, doesn't change, and which is a LIMIT.
    - People who stop in box-junctions
    - People who drive through red lights
    - People who drive without tax, insurance or MOT (UK annual car test)

    You're in a car. Not a fucking cinema. Get in the car, get to where you're going, get out of the car, THEN do what you need to do.

    It's a ton of metal (at least) moving at 70mph against other tons of metal driving towards you at 70mph. Drive like it.

    It's *still* illegal in my country - and always as been - to have something in your windscreen obscuring your vision, defined as anything within the sweep of the wiper arms, and most especially that sweep directly above the steering wheel. Your phone is not an exception, nor were satnavs, people still do it.

    It doesn't need to be there, nothing needs to be there, and it distracts. Centre-console satnavs and phones out of vision are things you have to DELIBERATELY look at rather than the road. You have to make a conscious decision to remove your eyes from the road, just like you do for mirrors, controls or anything else.

    If you do any of the above, I'll happily take a camera every 100 yards of every public road over you being on the road.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @08:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @08:00PM (#782211)

    Cause you are so perfect at driving, right?

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Hyper on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:37PM

    by Hyper (1525) on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:37PM (#782497) Journal

    I mount a phone on the windscreen in the center just above the dash then angle it towards me. Have done for a long time. I can see to the left, right, and when looking at it perceive the road on either side. Useful for long trips.

    I've tried a car with a snazzy new in dash GPS system. I don't see how looking down into the dash where the radio is traditionally is was better than a windscreen mounted device. At least when it is on the windscreen your eyes are still on the road.

    Feel free to disagree.