UK Detecting Drivers' Cell Phone Usage

Joust said:
I'm reasonably sure studies have found that cellphone-distracted drivers are more faulty than even intoxicated ones. Too lazy to put the google-fu to shore up my assertion, but there it is.
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I would much rather be on the road with a dozen folks that just downed a 12 pack rather than 12 that were texting for sure.
 
This is a gray area which gonna be unsolvable. Brilliant idea yet so silly.

Best short advice for this: Don't while driving.
 
With some luck those will panel will be super bright and blind you at night too!

Some screen were installed at nearly every small town/village entrance in my area that show how fast you're going (right before the speed limit change) in an very obnoxious way.
During the day they are already bright and annoying but at night they are blinding bright, extremely annoying and kinda dangerous imo.
Most of them are also placed to far out of the town entrance and will ask you to slow down before you even get to that panel warning you that speed limit change is coming soon.
 
MacLeod said:
Things are just getting ridiculous in the UK and this one is just stupid. The whole "cell phone while driving" paranoia is getting ridiculous. Stupid as fuck drivers have always existed and will continue to be stupid as fuck even without cell phones. I get not texting while driving but talking on a cell phone is no more distracting than drinking something while driving or talking to the guy in the car next to you. But I'm sure it won't be long til placed like the UK will eventually try to ban food and drinks in cars, ya know, for the children.

Direct traffic a few times and you'll see what I'm talking about. The people that drive like shit with a cell phone are still going to drive like shit without one.
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Disagree - i commute by motorbike in the UK in to London, and passing between cars daily i see easily 5+ people every 1 hour journey on the phone.... half of those people are drifting between lanes, not moving properly with traffic or just plain being stupid. Sure there will always be idiots, but give those people a phone on top and they are a danger to all on the road. Im all for peoples freedom to do whatever they like, but not at the expense of other peoples safety on the roads.
 
c3k said:
Reading this while driving in to work. Thumb typing my response while the retards on the road around me delay my day. No need for hands free. My skills are such that I a
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Well-played, sir.
 
well it sounds good in theory although it will detect anybody in the vehicle using a phone, might work well in practice or maybe not.
 
I ordered a forward facing camera to add to my head unit so I could record what is going on in front of me. Couple weeks ago there was a car swerving all over the road like they were drunk. When I pass them i saw the woman driving was texting and not even looking where she was going. Idiots like that are going to get themselves killed and take wipe out other drivers at the same time.
 
Next step will be the photo, like they use to ticket people who go through eazypass lanes without paying; the photo will collect the plate, frontal face pick of the driver on a cell phone, time and date. Then they just send the ticket, and you have to prove that you aren't the one driving your car at that particular time. It's coming to a freeway near you. The easypass cameras are already there. Wouldn't be much additional cost to set them up to do cell phone activity monitoring, considering the windfall that would come in from the tickets until the public stopped doing it. At first it will be easy to simply not call when you go through an easypass lane. But then they can simply mount the cameras onto any over the road signs, and drivers would be totally oblivious to being photographed.
 
slunge said:
Disagree - i commute by motorbike in the UK in to London, and passing between cars daily i see easily 5+ people every 1 hour journey on the phone.... half of those people are drifting between lanes, not moving properly with traffic or just plain being stupid. Sure there will always be idiots, but give those people a phone on top and they are a danger to all on the road. Im all for peoples freedom to do whatever they like, but not at the expense of other peoples safety on the roads.
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Not in the UK and I'm my own motor for my bike, but I agree 250%. Cell phones and cars here are infinitely more prevalent than 5+ per hour. It's awful. And that's on top of the road rage.

Also given cell phone communication is regulated to specific bands of frequencies, it's clear they're scanning for those. It'll be a lot trickier with VoLTE to discern.
 
PaulP said:
The price would be probably be as prohibitive as well; a 4-pack around here is around $10.
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We're pretty spoiled in the Seattle area for good beer. There are more good craft breweries than I can count, and even a lot of ones that I'd put in the exceptional class. My wife was a bar tender for a place that had 36 on tap at all times of rotating locals. The unfortunate (well, actually probably fortunate... ...for my belly :D ) thing is I haven't been in the mood for beer at all lately. I've been more into wines again, and whiskeys and cigars. (the "slimmer" ways to damage one's health :D )
 
J3RK said:
We're pretty spoiled in the Seattle area for good beer. There are more good craft breweries than I can count, and even a lot of ones that I'd put in the exceptional class. My wife was a bar tender for a place that had 36 on tap at all times of rotating locals. The unfortunate (well, actually probably fortunate... ...for my belly :D ) thing is I haven't been in the mood for beer at all lately. I've been more into wines again, and whiskeys and cigars. (the "slimmer" ways to damage one's health :D )
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A good single-malt with a cigar, now that's my idea of great time. Guess I'm getting old. :nailbiting:
 
PaulP said:
A good single-malt with a cigar, now that's my idea of great time. Guess I'm getting old. :nailbiting:
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Indeed! Excellent combo. I've got some British friends that we see nearly yearly, and they always bring me really nice Cuban cigars. Other cigars are catching up a bit, but a good Cuban is still an absolute delight.

It's funny. I suppose I'm getting oldish (41) but I actually don't feel any older than I have since my 20s. Good thing I suppose. My tastes have changed and refined over the years, but that's about it. We just went on vacation to Play del Carmen, and went on a cool excursion with zip-lines, cliff jumping, and a touch of rappelling. I was still one of the only people who'd jump off the cliffs, climb, dive, etc. There was one other guy on the trip that was doing the same things. The rest were not. :D My oldest daughter did jump off of two of them though, so that was cool.
 
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