Mobile Phone Use While Driving

Don't see it as a big issue myself but have the parrot kit anyway as don't fancy the points or a fine!

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Every journey I see someone doing it,maybe a ban would stop these morons
 
It can be seriously dangerous but no way is it as serious as driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol surely!?

As above I agree, with a heavy fine but certainly doesn't deserve a ban. Considering a GPS navigation could be just as distracting if not even more, where do you draw the line?
 
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I think it is quite dangerous, on the way home yesterday, the amount of people i drove past looking in their laps or gazing in a way that they were looking at something else i.e mobile phone. People just dont pay attention to the road when they are on their phones especially when they are looking down every 2 seconds....

Azeem i appreciate what you say about sat nav, but alot of the times that is in the centre of the dash or even on the windscreen so you can see whats going on in front of you, however it is still a distraction and as you say where do you draw the line??

Im not a facebooker so cannot vouch for the social media thing, I just dont understand why it is so important for people to check it every spare second they have!!
 
They won't be able to crack down on it as their too deluded cracking down on speeding motorists as statistically speed kills more than people who use mobile phones whilst driving. It also happens to generate more money for them too...
 
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As said it's more about getting more money than safety, same as this new anti smoking with kids in the car law they want to bring in. Should all be advisory not law of the land.
 
Satnav don't take as much time to mess with as looking at your status or some other FB crap, I do lean towards the statement though as it's still a distraction just as much as getting your favourite radio station is.

What I like about the A8 is I can do pretty much everything from the steering wheel and dash cluster, making calls and getting phone numbers up, basically anything to do with the mmi can be tinkered with to a small extent from the steering wheel, keeping my hands on the wheel and more focus on the road :)
 
Talking on the phone hands free or not is a distraction, next time you have a minute or two's worth of call think back what you passed whilst talking, I bet your recollection isn't as clear as when just driving. Using a phone isn't a straight 3 points £100 quid fine anymore, its a driver awareness course offer, if you don't take it its the fine or of to court.
plenty more serious offences out there to cause concern, the increase of drink and drug driving for one
 
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Talking on the phone hands free or not is a distraction, next time you have a minute or two's worth of call think back what you passed whilst talking, I bet your recollection isn't as clear as when just driving. Using a phone isn't a straight 3 points £100 quid fine anymore, its a driver awareness course offer, if you don't take it its the fine or of to court.
plenty more serious offences out there to cause concern, the increase of drink and drug driving for one
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I think it depends how you treat the call on hands free, I'll always put my driving before the conversation and will stop talking and concentrate if there is anything that needs my full awareness, you could say the same having a passenger and talkin to them, it's how you prioritise things as well.

But because of the general publics attitude then I'd agree that maybe even hands free shouldn't be allowed.
 
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Yes done that, the wife then gets a poopy on cos I suddenly stopped talking / listening....red button 'dink'..
 
I'd like to see the police given the power to stop a driver talking on a hand-held phone and say, "you can keep the phone or the car while you complete your journey, but not both, you choose".

You only have to observe people on the phone when walking around on the pavement or in a shop. Their attention is elsewhere, they're staring unfocused into the middle ground and they have zero awareness of their surroundings. Now add a ton and a half of unguided missile to that mix.
 
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It's a fair point regarding handsfree - I use it only when I have to, and for as little time as possible, because I am aware of how much it distracts me! However, I see plenty of people (usually in expensive, higher end cars - surely they have a handsfree kit?? ORRR commercial drivers - vans, lorries etc..) using their phones on the road, and 98% of the time theyre doing something they shouldnt be with their vehicle.
Be it driving too slowly for the conditions/traffic, or swerving around the road, not indicating properly/at all, the list goes on.
More work on cracking down would help, but as has already been said, that would take the already overstrained traffic division and put it to less financially productive use than those pesky speeding tickets...
 
Whilst driving on company business I'm not even able to take or make calls from the cars hands free system. And to take it further, if I'm making or taking a business call from the office and I think the person on the other side is driving, I have to advise them to call me back once they are parked up.

What makes me laugh are the people who think talking to the phone on loud speaker whilst driving consider this as hands free!
 
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