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Old 01-12-05, 01:33 PM   #1
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Default 2 yrs ago today it became a criminal offence to.............

use a mobile phone whilst driving.

am i the only one that thinks the law made little difference, i think at first people were a little more careful, but now its back to me, me, me..........
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Old 01-12-05, 01:36 PM   #2
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The number of people that do this is legion. Q: which is likely to be more dangerous, being 10mph over the limit or using your mobile whilst driving?

Why is one rigorously enforced and the other almost completely ignored by the boys in blue?


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Old 01-12-05, 01:39 PM   #3
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The number of people that do this is legion. Q: which is likely to be more dangerous, being 10mph over the limit or using your mobile whilst driving?

Why is one rigorously enforced and the other almost completely ignored by the boys in blue?


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speed cameras.

perhaps the cameras could be rigged to detect a moving mobile phone signal then when it passes the camera kerflash, i think id be more in favour off cameras if they could do this........oh and i know it cant really happen its just a what if?
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Old 01-12-05, 03:07 PM   #4
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Yeah, once they find a way to get photo evidence of someone using their mobile while driving then they'll be busting people all over the place for using mobiles. Until then it's their word against the culprit, and anyone scabby enough to be using a mobile on the road is probably scabby enough to lie in court.

In theory it's already possible to do this to a certain extent with the film-less forward facing (truvelo) cameras - take a pic of every car and run it through optical recognition software to ID anyone using a phone.

It's purely down to them not having an easy/certain enough way to catch the people doing it.
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Old 01-12-05, 03:17 PM   #5
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All the data is recorded so if the guy was accussed of being on his phone at the time its very easy to prove.
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Old 01-12-05, 03:41 PM   #6
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Give it a few more years, when they have a more sophisticated camera system with automatic recognition of the plate, vehicle details, driver... coupled with better access to records of the mobile phone companies. If there's money to be made out of it, you know they'll find a way to make it work.

Unlike speeding there'll be few people willing to defend using a mobile while driving. And there's probably just as much money to be made from this as there has been from speeding.
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Old 01-12-05, 04:40 PM   #7
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If i was a traffic cop, id be going after the mobile users every time. Ive seen people blatently committing this offence which really annoys me. IMO its a lot more dangerous than going over the speed limit by 10mph. At least at that speed you're still concentrating
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Old 01-12-05, 09:58 PM   #8
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...but every wagon driver in the land would be prosecuted
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Old 01-12-05, 10:23 PM   #9
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When I'm in the cage and i spot a mobile phone user I get beside them, dual carriageway and crank the sound system with the 2 facing windows cranked down. Hopefully I'd loaded something noisy. The other day I treated mister BMW to the intro to Marily Manson's Beautiful People about 4 times as we inched along in traffic. Childish perhaps but it makes them hang up the phone quicker than anything else.

When I'm on the bike I avoid them like the plague I don't wanna die
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Old 01-12-05, 10:58 PM   #10
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It wouldn't be particularly difficult to introduce a signal blocker on all new cars.

Something that detects if there is only one occupant in the car ( abit like the seatbelt lights in some cars now), and if it's not stationary then block all outgoing signals. Not exactly expensive to make or fit.
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