Next time you’re at a traffic light watch how long it takes motorists to react to the light change. Some of them take 4/5 seconds. Clear as day what they’re doing.
The amount of distracted drivers at traffic lights. I don’t like to use the horn too much but sometimes they need to be woken up.
Netflix and ditch
Was driving into Dublin last week and the car infront was clearly watching YouTube or some videos on his phone mount while driving in traffic. How incredibly stupid can a person be.
You can get gadgets now that will let you watch Netflix on the big Ipads on the dash of newer cars. As if it wasn’t dangerous enough having to use them for normal functions in cars instead of buttons.
Be thankful we have laws for it. Was in Nashville and every cab driver watched YouTube/netflix whilst driving.
That’s both insane yet entirely unsurprisingly too. I wonder how many people reading this very Discussion have done this; do you reckon they’d have the nerve to admit it, even try and blag a reason excusing it?
When you allow people to become addicted to their devices it shouldn’t be a surprise when they use them at every opportunity
I’ve seen truck drivers watch videos and read newspapers.
Up to roads policing Gardai to sort it out. So dangerous
What if they’re watching road safety videos?
What????? Netflix content isn’t even that good. They’d be better off with Disney+ for the money.
That’s nuts, there’s nothing good on it.
I thought I was crazy. I was driving behind a taxi in Limerick a couple of nights ago and the guy had two big phones stuck to the middle of his windscreen. The one closer to the driver had a video of some sort playing on it. I thought he was watching a show but my son said it looked like it might have been a facetime call.
Either way it was ludicrous and dangerous.
Norma foley’s phone pouches are needed for adults driving cars with no self regulation behind the wheel not school kids
I need to cross a busy road in Dublin on foot a few times a day. When the traffic is busy and slow, it is often easier to cross as drivers will slow to let you cross. However, I have to be really careful in this situation. There is a good chance that the driver who leaves a gap is doing so because they are distracted by the phone in their hand, below window height and either texting or looking at a video. It makes me really angry that I am not seen because of this. Oh, and don’t get me started on motorbikes in cycle lanes! Crossing the road has become a lot more difficult lately.
Really doesn’t surprise me. When in waiting to turn on to the main road in the morning, I count the people on their phones. Can safely say one in every two people will be on some kind of device, but the most common I see is texting. Did see a courier on a laptop, watching a film.
Don’t worry the truck will catch them
I was stuck at one of the automated sets of lights they use during roadworks, where it turns green, gives a count down, then turns red and the other light turns green. For whatever reason the countdown was set to only be about 15 seconds (IIRC) but with long waits before the oncoming cars started to move since it was a long stretch of road. This meant every second of getting cars through mattered since a long line of cars had built up.
Of course, when it went green when I’d gotten just up to the light the car in front of me didn’t move. Gave him the curtesy 2 seconds or so, but then saw he was on his phone so then gave him a light beep. Saw him look in his rear-view with an annoyed look before looking back down at his phone. Then around 5 cars behind me started beeping him out of it, and only then did he look up and see the green light with 1 second left on it. Proceeds to rocket through the now red light, and leave me stuck on the red.
Some people just have no awareness when they’re driving
Passed a car on the m50 over the weekend and seen a phone on a windscreen mount and the driver flicking through tiktoks
I don’t watch Netflix since the lockdowns what are they watchin. Nothing good since afterlife
Was in a taxi/Uber recently and the guy has a TV embedded into the dash. It had some news channel on, might have been streaming. It worked while he was driving, so definitely an after market thing. Seemed like a potential for distraction for sure
I was driving near blanchardstown a few months back and the fella in the car in front of me had a Man Utd match on his phone as he was driving
Twats. Connoisseurs, at the wheel, are on Reddit…
If only there was freely available streaming content on a wide range of subjects, accessible via smartphone, that delivers entertainment as audio only, so that drivers can fight boredom but don’t have to look at a screen.
At the launch, Minister James Lawless criticized drivers using mobile phones as a “scourge” on road safety. He also suggested that the Road Safety Authority (RSA) might lose certain responsibilities, like driver and vehicle testing, as a recent review by consultants Indecon proposed various reform options for the organisation.
There should be the same penalty as drink driving here…. but prob be difficult to prove I guess..
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Next time you’re at a traffic light watch how long it takes motorists to react to the light change. Some of them take 4/5 seconds. Clear as day what they’re doing.
The amount of distracted drivers at traffic lights. I don’t like to use the horn too much but sometimes they need to be woken up.
Netflix and ditch
Was driving into Dublin last week and the car infront was clearly watching YouTube or some videos on his phone mount while driving in traffic. How incredibly stupid can a person be.
You can get gadgets now that will let you watch Netflix on the big Ipads on the dash of newer cars. As if it wasn’t dangerous enough having to use them for normal functions in cars instead of buttons.
Be thankful we have laws for it. Was in Nashville and every cab driver watched YouTube/netflix whilst driving.
That’s both insane yet entirely unsurprisingly too. I wonder how many people reading this very Discussion have done this; do you reckon they’d have the nerve to admit it, even try and blag a reason excusing it?
When you allow people to become addicted to their devices it shouldn’t be a surprise when they use them at every opportunity
I’ve seen truck drivers watch videos and read newspapers.
Up to roads policing Gardai to sort it out. So dangerous
What if they’re watching road safety videos?
What????? Netflix content isn’t even that good. They’d be better off with Disney+ for the money.
That’s nuts, there’s nothing good on it.
I thought I was crazy. I was driving behind a taxi in Limerick a couple of nights ago and the guy had two big phones stuck to the middle of his windscreen. The one closer to the driver had a video of some sort playing on it. I thought he was watching a show but my son said it looked like it might have been a facetime call.
Either way it was ludicrous and dangerous.
Norma foley’s phone pouches are needed for adults driving cars with no self regulation behind the wheel not school kids
I need to cross a busy road in Dublin on foot a few times a day. When the traffic is busy and slow, it is often easier to cross as drivers will slow to let you cross. However, I have to be really careful in this situation. There is a good chance that the driver who leaves a gap is doing so because they are distracted by the phone in their hand, below window height and either texting or looking at a video. It makes me really angry that I am not seen because of this. Oh, and don’t get me started on motorbikes in cycle lanes! Crossing the road has become a lot more difficult lately.
Really doesn’t surprise me. When in waiting to turn on to the main road in the morning, I count the people on their phones. Can safely say one in every two people will be on some kind of device, but the most common I see is texting. Did see a courier on a laptop, watching a film.
Don’t worry the truck will catch them
I was stuck at one of the automated sets of lights they use during roadworks, where it turns green, gives a count down, then turns red and the other light turns green. For whatever reason the countdown was set to only be about 15 seconds (IIRC) but with long waits before the oncoming cars started to move since it was a long stretch of road. This meant every second of getting cars through mattered since a long line of cars had built up.
Of course, when it went green when I’d gotten just up to the light the car in front of me didn’t move. Gave him the curtesy 2 seconds or so, but then saw he was on his phone so then gave him a light beep. Saw him look in his rear-view with an annoyed look before looking back down at his phone. Then around 5 cars behind me started beeping him out of it, and only then did he look up and see the green light with 1 second left on it. Proceeds to rocket through the now red light, and leave me stuck on the red.
Some people just have no awareness when they’re driving
Passed a car on the m50 over the weekend and seen a phone on a windscreen mount and the driver flicking through tiktoks
I don’t watch Netflix since the lockdowns what are they watchin. Nothing good since afterlife
Was in a taxi/Uber recently and the guy has a TV embedded into the dash. It had some news channel on, might have been streaming. It worked while he was driving, so definitely an after market thing. Seemed like a potential for distraction for sure
I was driving near blanchardstown a few months back and the fella in the car in front of me had a Man Utd match on his phone as he was driving
Twats. Connoisseurs, at the wheel, are on Reddit…
If only there was freely available streaming content on a wide range of subjects, accessible via smartphone, that delivers entertainment as audio only, so that drivers can fight boredom but don’t have to look at a screen.
At the launch, Minister James Lawless criticized drivers using mobile phones as a “scourge” on road safety. He also suggested that the Road Safety Authority (RSA) might lose certain responsibilities, like driver and vehicle testing, as a recent review by consultants Indecon proposed various reform options for the organisation.
There should be the same penalty as drink driving here…. but prob be difficult to prove I guess..
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