It’s not difficult to not use a mobile while driving.
They could hitch a ride with a lorry driver. I was in my mates cab looking down on the all car drivers, which was quite fun. Loads of them were on their phones.
I don’t think there’s much to be said other than good. I hope it catches each and every fecking person who thinks it’s more important to drive with only half their attention on the road.
Oh great… More surveillance..
“Well oi for one fink its very reasonable! Gawd save the king, gotta keep us louts in line!!”
When will they start going after noisy car drivers, I live on the main road through my village, it’s an old house with poor insulation and it feels like my house is shaking when some of these cars are going past.
How much is this costing vs how much distracted driver collisions are coatings.
I know this is a serious issue but is it money we’ll spent considering we have record low of just 5.8% of crimes being solved by the police. Surely there are other areas to invest in??
*Edit, for the record: I’m not saying its not worth enforcing, or that it doesn’t take lives. But that only 5.8% of crimes being solved means there are murderers and rapist also going free to commit crimes again.*
*Again, it’s not either/or but right now the stats are 60,000+ rapes a year, 700+ murders and 17 people died in crashes involving drivers distracted by phones in 2020.*
*It feels like the police are spending money on the easy crimes whilst ignoring the more seriousness ones.*
Will the phones be able to tell the driver where the cameras are like speed cameras?
Fucking yes! Fuck all of you that use your phones whilst driving. Go to hell.
Plenty of drivers that use their phones without a care in the road one guy didn’t give way to me on roundabout as you give way to your right and oh he was on his phone so the rule did not apply to him !
Welcome to 1984. Are they gonna start checking everything your doing on the road? Oh, you didnt use your turn signal at the light, well now you gotta pay.
Good but you don’t need AI. You basically just need to point a camera at any car on the Road and immediately issue the points.
It’s absolutely insane. There’s no consequences at all and no deterent. Any completely stationary queue of cars 99% of the drivers will be looking at their phone. On the motorway I reckon it’s probably 3 or 4 out of every 10 vehicles from what I see.
Almost every car that pulls up behind you at a roundabout or traffic lights, even if it’s not a dead stop, will immediately glance down at their phone.
Have a member of your family killed / seriously injured by some Fking moron on a mobile phone than ask if this is some dystopic shit.
How hard is it not to use a phone while driving a potential killing machine.
I just do not understand why people would be on their phones in the first place. Surely a text or a notification can wait? How addicted do people have to be to their phones for this to have to be a thing?
Good! Anyone that’s caught should get a driving ban.
The privacy invading camera’s will be capturing images of every vehicle on the road , detecting your behaviour inside the vehicle and outside .
The AI simultaneously capture illegal mobile phone use, vehicle over-speeding via radar point speed detection and/or ANPR based section control, seatbelt offences and unregistered/hotlist vehicle detection via ANPR.
In addition, the same hardware platform can be extended for use to solve various enforcement challenges such as:
Wrong way driver detection
High occupancy vehicle lanes (additional cameras required for backseat detection)
Electric vehicle only lane enforcement (via vehicle model detection and recognition)
Illegal overtaking
Tailgating (close following) detection
Big Brother is watching you and it’s a robot who works for the law
But Tesla’s can drive around with huge screens in their centre console… Righto then .
I was phoning the emergency services, proof? Sorry i disposed of that phone and number recently.
Whilst I’d agree that phones whilst driving are bad, sometimes it is necessary to touch them. What about people with no in-built satnav, or entertainment system? People with “better” cars would be able to use them freely, but people relying on their phones will be discriminates against. Another anti-poor measure from the Tories
Tbh have they seen the giant tablets on the dashes of new screens they are just has distracting!
I mean on some new cars you have to go through several menus to just put the heating on !
Driving to Bristol from Devon today, passed 2 van drivers on their phones, both stuck in the middle lane rather than moving to Lane 1 and both swerving left and right as their concentration switched between phone and road.
According to the local news the monitoring control room is in Australia.
People are just gonna do what kids do in school when they use them in class
Passengers not wearing seatbelts is a bit more awkward, especially the front passenger seat. The police have powers to ask the registered keeper to name a driver. Passengers are not included.
Government should make it an instant 12-month ban too, maybe that would discourage a few more people from using their phones whilst driving.
then they came for the drivers using mobile phones, and i did not speak out, because lmao
Good
I’m normally pretty strong on “Stop this bullshit against ‘motorists'” – eg the way drivers are seen as a tax cash cow, and how fixed speed cameras are a piss-take, you can drive under the limit for 4 hours then be slightly over it for 100 yards and get caught speeding… all speed cameras should be average speed, in my opinion, so that someone who knows the road can’t just slow down for the camera then speed off, and tourists don’t just constantly get caught by sneaky cameras at the bottom of hills
But there is NO reason to have a phone in your hand while driving, ever.
I see it all the time and it’s dangerous as hell – you can visibly see people aren’t paying attention with their eyes down to the side of the wheel for *far* longer than they think they’re looking away from the road for. If anything, it was almost safer when it was legal – people used to hold their phones up in front of the windscreen and had at least half a chance of seeing the car in front had stopped. Although I’m certainly not proposing we make it legal again!
Massive fines, 6 points per offence (or even an instant ban, as far as I’m concerned), and tons of cameras everywhere to catch these idiots? Yes please.
I think it’s splendid that money has been found to rightfully prosecute and fine the criminals using their phones while driving.
Can we next find the money to rightfully prosecute and fine the criminals using offshore money laundering shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
What’s the difference between navigating your mobile attached to a phone holder and using a built-in infotainment touch screen?
“Never use a mobile phone while driving” is a bit black and white in my opinion.
I will happily zoom out on google maps, or click to accept a faster route etc, providing it’s safe to do so (i.e. I’m on the inside lane of the motorway with nothing in front of me and not in bumper-to-bumper traffic.)
When my phone is mounted high on my dash, I can do things like this while keeping attention on the road still. In my opinion, it’s perfectly safe (safer than adjusting the aircon), in the same way it’s OK to glance up at a gantry sign etc.
Over the top enforcement may encourage people to hide their phones in their lap, diverting more attention from the road.
(Note: There’s a distinction between what I’ve described and taking your eyes off the road long enough to type a text message. Hopefully most will understand that.)
If it’s safety we’re looking for, then education is the way forwards.
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It’s not difficult to not use a mobile while driving.
They could hitch a ride with a lorry driver. I was in my mates cab looking down on the all car drivers, which was quite fun. Loads of them were on their phones.
I don’t think there’s much to be said other than good. I hope it catches each and every fecking person who thinks it’s more important to drive with only half their attention on the road.
Oh great… More surveillance..
“Well oi for one fink its very reasonable! Gawd save the king, gotta keep us louts in line!!”
When will they start going after noisy car drivers, I live on the main road through my village, it’s an old house with poor insulation and it feels like my house is shaking when some of these cars are going past.
How much is this costing vs how much distracted driver collisions are coatings.
I know this is a serious issue but is it money we’ll spent considering we have record low of just 5.8% of crimes being solved by the police. Surely there are other areas to invest in??
*Edit, for the record: I’m not saying its not worth enforcing, or that it doesn’t take lives. But that only 5.8% of crimes being solved means there are murderers and rapist also going free to commit crimes again.*
*Again, it’s not either/or but right now the stats are 60,000+ rapes a year, 700+ murders and 17 people died in crashes involving drivers distracted by phones in 2020.*
*It feels like the police are spending money on the easy crimes whilst ignoring the more seriousness ones.*
Will the phones be able to tell the driver where the cameras are like speed cameras?
Fucking yes! Fuck all of you that use your phones whilst driving. Go to hell.
Plenty of drivers that use their phones without a care in the road one guy didn’t give way to me on roundabout as you give way to your right and oh he was on his phone so the rule did not apply to him !
Welcome to 1984. Are they gonna start checking everything your doing on the road? Oh, you didnt use your turn signal at the light, well now you gotta pay.
Good but you don’t need AI. You basically just need to point a camera at any car on the Road and immediately issue the points.
It’s absolutely insane. There’s no consequences at all and no deterent. Any completely stationary queue of cars 99% of the drivers will be looking at their phone. On the motorway I reckon it’s probably 3 or 4 out of every 10 vehicles from what I see.
Almost every car that pulls up behind you at a roundabout or traffic lights, even if it’s not a dead stop, will immediately glance down at their phone.
Have a member of your family killed / seriously injured by some Fking moron on a mobile phone than ask if this is some dystopic shit.
How hard is it not to use a phone while driving a potential killing machine.
I just do not understand why people would be on their phones in the first place. Surely a text or a notification can wait? How addicted do people have to be to their phones for this to have to be a thing?
Good! Anyone that’s caught should get a driving ban.
The privacy invading camera’s will be capturing images of every vehicle on the road , detecting your behaviour inside the vehicle and outside .
The AI simultaneously capture illegal mobile phone use, vehicle over-speeding via radar point speed detection and/or ANPR based section control, seatbelt offences and unregistered/hotlist vehicle detection via ANPR.
In addition, the same hardware platform can be extended for use to solve various enforcement challenges such as:
Wrong way driver detection
High occupancy vehicle lanes (additional cameras required for backseat detection)
Electric vehicle only lane enforcement (via vehicle model detection and recognition)
Illegal overtaking
Tailgating (close following) detection
Big Brother is watching you and it’s a robot who works for the law
But Tesla’s can drive around with huge screens in their centre console… Righto then .
I was phoning the emergency services, proof? Sorry i disposed of that phone and number recently.
Whilst I’d agree that phones whilst driving are bad, sometimes it is necessary to touch them. What about people with no in-built satnav, or entertainment system? People with “better” cars would be able to use them freely, but people relying on their phones will be discriminates against. Another anti-poor measure from the Tories
Tbh have they seen the giant tablets on the dashes of new screens they are just has distracting!
I mean on some new cars you have to go through several menus to just put the heating on !
Driving to Bristol from Devon today, passed 2 van drivers on their phones, both stuck in the middle lane rather than moving to Lane 1 and both swerving left and right as their concentration switched between phone and road.
According to the local news the monitoring control room is in Australia.
People are just gonna do what kids do in school when they use them in class
Passengers not wearing seatbelts is a bit more awkward, especially the front passenger seat. The police have powers to ask the registered keeper to name a driver. Passengers are not included.
Government should make it an instant 12-month ban too, maybe that would discourage a few more people from using their phones whilst driving.
then they came for the drivers using mobile phones, and i did not speak out, because lmao
Good
I’m normally pretty strong on “Stop this bullshit against ‘motorists'” – eg the way drivers are seen as a tax cash cow, and how fixed speed cameras are a piss-take, you can drive under the limit for 4 hours then be slightly over it for 100 yards and get caught speeding… all speed cameras should be average speed, in my opinion, so that someone who knows the road can’t just slow down for the camera then speed off, and tourists don’t just constantly get caught by sneaky cameras at the bottom of hills
But there is NO reason to have a phone in your hand while driving, ever.
I see it all the time and it’s dangerous as hell – you can visibly see people aren’t paying attention with their eyes down to the side of the wheel for *far* longer than they think they’re looking away from the road for. If anything, it was almost safer when it was legal – people used to hold their phones up in front of the windscreen and had at least half a chance of seeing the car in front had stopped. Although I’m certainly not proposing we make it legal again!
Massive fines, 6 points per offence (or even an instant ban, as far as I’m concerned), and tons of cameras everywhere to catch these idiots? Yes please.
I think it’s splendid that money has been found to rightfully prosecute and fine the criminals using their phones while driving.
Can we next find the money to rightfully prosecute and fine the criminals using offshore money laundering shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
What’s the difference between navigating your mobile attached to a phone holder and using a built-in infotainment touch screen?
“Never use a mobile phone while driving” is a bit black and white in my opinion.
I will happily zoom out on google maps, or click to accept a faster route etc, providing it’s safe to do so (i.e. I’m on the inside lane of the motorway with nothing in front of me and not in bumper-to-bumper traffic.)
When my phone is mounted high on my dash, I can do things like this while keeping attention on the road still. In my opinion, it’s perfectly safe (safer than adjusting the aircon), in the same way it’s OK to glance up at a gantry sign etc.
Over the top enforcement may encourage people to hide their phones in their lap, diverting more attention from the road.
(Note: There’s a distinction between what I’ve described and taking your eyes off the road long enough to type a text message. Hopefully most will understand that.)
If it’s safety we’re looking for, then education is the way forwards.