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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: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 05 2019, @01:47PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 05 2019, @01:47PM (#782483) Journal

    Its the standard libertarian cognitive dissidence. "How dare people use their phones while driving, but how dare anyone stop them from doing it!"

    Use phones while driving? Problem. Build huge surveillance machine which can do a lot more than just figure out whether drivers have a phone attached to their heads? Much bigger problem. It's not cognitive dissonance to be concerned when someone creates a bigger problem in order to solve a lesser one.