Texting While Driving - On the phone drivers!

How Aussie motovlogger AdjrianNickelodeon deals with it.
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Motorbikes are great for it. No-one wants to mess around with someone covered in padding and kevlar armour.

I remember filtering past someone on the phone in their car whilst on my motorbike:-

They had the window down so I said "Put the phone down." They ignored me.

Bike to 3000rpm. (My exhaust is about 2ft from their car). They start to shout on their phone.
6000rpm. They wind up their window.
9000rpm. They shout into their phone inside their car.
12000rpm. They're looking very angrily at me.
15000rpm. They hang up.

^ thank you. most people would not care. many are not fussed about drivers on phones until they are affected by it, i mean until distracted drivers injure cyclists or other road users.

A great example of how text driving is perfectly legal.

Well, there's twelve more people who have just admitted to texting while driving.

^^
Each of the jury deserve to be banned from driving for 6 months each
for getting the verdict wrong.

Fucking shocking , thoughts go out to the poor family

Reading that kind of stuff is bad for my health. It only leaves me hoping for the same violent outcome to be visited on the loved ones of EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE IMBECILES involved in the outcome. This is self abuse.

I can't say how any drivers I see on mobile phones whilst taking children out on bikeability courses. What amazes me is when raised the immediate anger from said drivers on that, "wtf has it got to do with you?!"

The quickly hush when I ask how they'd feel if ran their child over whilst on the phone. Cuntz

I've was driving around a bit yesterday and the day before and it's ridiculous how many people I watched in my mirror spend there time behind me looking down below their steering wheel. Got to the point where I'd do false move offs to make them jump.

My office is at driver level on a snarled up A road. I'd say it takes a maximum of 20 seconds looking out of the window to see someone holding a phone to their ear. Often totes brazen, window down, chatting away, regularly it's work vans that the drivers must be in a lot, so why not invest in a £50 hands-free kit? I wonder what it would take to get phone-driving to the same social status as drink-driving...

... Got to the point where I'd do false move offs to make them jump.

I've done this, in car and on biek, it works like a dream.

It is lulz.

makes my blood boil!
I can see a clear section of road from the tills at work, I would say every 6th or 7th driver is on the phone or texting.

I have tried calling people out on it :(

I have been thinking about the old 'tennis ball' trick?
take a few tennis balls with you when you ride and throw them at windows of offending drivers.
loud enough to scare the shit out of drivers but not hard enough to do damage!!

ok I know thats a bad idea but.....

Might invest in one of those little boxes that causes interference for mobile singles. Bloke I saw on the train had one, anytime someone started to make a call he would turn it on, no signal until he turned it off. Quiet funny watching people trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

*think they might be illegal.

Phone jammers can be bought legally but are illegal to use. Don't ask me why.
But illegal or not, I reckon the rays they put out would fry your plums for sure.

Might invest in one of those little boxes that causes interference for mobile singles.

The big downside is that people will then pay more attention to their 'phone to see why it isn't working than concentrating on the road. So it'll just make things worse.

Also, does nothing for people reading/writing texts, it'll only affect them being sent/received.

Leaving a jammer switched on in your bag as you ride will also make it near impossible for anyone to call an ambulance/police if you are involved in any form of accident (which will probably be more likely for the above reason).

There are legal ones (although hard to obtain) that push out the right signal to put 'phones into the "emergency calls only" mode, but they cost £000's.

the croxted road > brixton moving parking lot this morning: 18 people using phones. At least 5 of which were doing so in liveried vehicles. 2 people doing their make-up. 5 amber gambler RLJers. One person making what appeared to be a ham and tomato sanger.

every single one of them deserve to have their vehicles confiscated, crushed and the drivers billed for the trouble.

"Get off your phone whilst driving" stickers might work?

People need to know that using a phone whilst driving is reckless and has become the #1 cause of car accidents in the UK. The good news is that they may double the fine and number of points (from £100/3pt to £200/6pt) if the current trend continues.

i think the word 'accident' ceases to be applicable in such cases.

Rolled along past a suit in a 4x4 on a 2 lane stretch of road with roads coming onto it and a visiting fairground next to it, happened to see that he was spending as much time looking at the road as his phone and when I asked if he was driving or looking at his phone he laughed, when I said he'll kill someone one day, he laughed and said yeah yeah and started to try to say something about "cyclists" so I called him a cunt and fucked off before he could amuse himself with his witticism. This attitude fucking sickens me, it's never serious, until they hit someone. It's something that genuinely terrifies me. I'm sure if one day I'm wiped out it will be due to someone staring at their phone.

Police are apparently spending less resource in catching text drivers in the past few months.

KEZ1041 woman on the phone while driving yesterday outside Eynsham in Oxfordshire. Reported to Thames Valley Police.

Do supermarkets not employ these?

Find it odd that I get a very good signal just about everywhere except in a number of supermarkets. Could be just the number of fridge motors that don't have a suppresor on them, or supermarkets don't want you doing anything other than buying their stuff whilst inside?

Whether I'm driving a vehicle (various sizes) or riding a bike when I see someone on the phone it literally enrages me.

Taken to driving head on at them, not proud of it, but I'd rather they shit themselves then drive off the road or at least fill their pants then something involving another road user occur down the road due to their lack of concentration.

At traffic lights tried all sorts of approachs in terms of 'hi there, would you mind please not using your phone whilst driving' to 'get off the phone fuckface'. But the most effective is certainly the drive a large vehicle at them, on the horn/horns, or whilst on bike just weave right at their drivers door, then calmly carry on your journey. Usually results in teh phone on the floor or quickly thrust into a pocket*

*People hiding the phone would suggest that most folk are consciously aware it is illegal

Women on the phone on Friday almost caused a massive crash as she was on her phone. Stopped at the lights on Stockwell park road a few cars back from the front. I look across and she's happily whatsapping, lights turn green cars move, she's still on her phone but is moving forward. As she's been in here own world she isn't aware of the police car lights and sirens blazing coming from the left on Brixton Rd and just continues into the path of the police car, great driving from the police as they managed to swing around her, but so lucky that the traffic ahead wasn't backed up as she wouldn't have anywhere to go and the police would of been unable to stop. As I cycled past her she picked up phone again, she probably had no idea of what just happened.