Texting While Driving - On the phone drivers!

People are just being elusive. They knew it's illegal but told themselves it's fine when the cars is not moving, or for checking maps, changing music etc.

The current law is vague (but still accurate) as it was originally making call while driving until recently.

Plus text driving again is vague, it's not just texting they're doing, it's Googling, maps, music, games whatever on their phone.

New law is not vague at all. You cannot use a hand held device or sat-nav unless safely parked. Stopped at the lights is not safely parked.

What's the law on using a hands-free kit to dick about on facebook etc.?

I thought that if the handbrake is on and the device is not in your hand i.e. it's attached to your car by some means or other then it's ok. In which case you can touch your phone and or sat nav at the lights or in a queue of traffic?

Not just about texting here but Jaguar have been "rebuked" by the Advertising Standards Authority for an ad which among other things said that 'drive time is no longer downtime' because of all the things you can do in a Jag while driving. Of course, paying attention to the fucking road is so limiting.
"The regulator said the story was "irresponsible" because it was likely to encourage unsafe driving practices. The text had described drivers using in-built smart technology to check their calendars and use other apps while on the road."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39198898

good news that the ads been pulled, but what about the shitting car?

that bbc story reads like a press release for jaguar, which is ironic.

Haringay old bill pulled over a driver playing with a phone this morning, turned out the driver had a conviction for Causing Death by Dangerous driving.

Some prat watching YouTube on his phone in Camden last night.

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http://think.direct.gov.uk/drivingchallenge/index.html

Won't open on a mobile, wanted to play it while driving up the motorway later.

it's teh flahs lol

GL17 OPA, blue Skoda, veering between lanes in Bayswater, peak hour this morning.

Dopey cunt got a fucking earful from me. Will report the idiot later.

Not sure if this video has been posted before https://www.facebook.com/victor.king.370/videos/1556254841161887/

Food in one hand and phone in the other. Slow moving and still traffic but ........

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drumming up business?

Do feel sorry for her though. She could be a community nurse/midwife on call to an emergency, and taking the only chance in her 15 hour day to eat something, all while replying to emails from HR and her manager explaining that another 19 visits a day isn't possible...

..or she could be a filthy rich trust exec stuffing her greedy face... who's to say?

Nice hat btw.

I did consider her plight. Maybe vigilantism isn’t for me.
Take it down or leave it up?

Put your hands up for Detroit!

Leave it, short of time or not, its dangerous

It's all fine... don't know what anyone is complaining about.. it was slow traffic...

Oh, until their inattention causes them to drive over the top of a child.

Report it to the NHS and the police. For all the good it'll do. It's not some harmless, victimless crime. It's bloody dangerous and needs to be made socially unacceptable.

Totally report it. However understandable it is/may be, it's still illegal and dangerous.

Why do this in a liveried vehicle? Surely it's not worth the risk.

There's not that much risk, sadly.

The NHS do take this kind of thing (staff doing dopey shit in public) pretty seriously compared to many employers

Also spineless middle managers don't consider how increasingly impossible demands on staff impact safety until they fear being dragged into litigation for contributory negligence.