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Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Friday January 04 2019, @06:59PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday January 04 2019, @06:59PM (#782177) Homepage Journal

    My primary goal is not to die.

    Morons on phones (or drunk, or applying make-up, or berating their spouse/children, etc.) while driving negatively impacts the probability of achieving my primary goal.

    What's that? You think that reaching my destination should be the primary goal? Not so much. If I die while driving, I won't ever reach my destination.

    The old saw, "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins," applies in spades here.

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