The first ever road signs that can detect mobile phone use while driving are being trialled in Norwich and warn drivers that they are breaking the law. The new signs can detect when a mobile phone is being used inside a car – they flash a symbol of a mobile phone with a line through it, to prompt drivers not to use their phone while behind the wheel.
Detection software
This smart technology works by using a scanner that detects radio signals emitted when someone in the car is on their phone. The data is then sent to a sign further down the road which flashes the symbol to let them know they have been spotted. The system doesn’t monitor data connections, so anyone using an internet service on their phone can’t yet be seen.
The scanner can detect both mobile phone and Bluetooth signals and can tell the difference between the two. So, if someone is using a Bluetooth hands-free set, they will not see the warning sign because the light will disable when it registers they aren’t on the handset.
New sign program
The sign is the first of three, each costing $6,000, launched last week in Norwich, Norfolk. The idea is that the signs will act as a deterrent making people think twice about using their phone when they are in the car. Currently, the system can’t record car registrations or issue fines because it cannot differentiate between the driver and the passenger using the mobile phone.
However, data will be shared with the police to set up potential future crackdowns on the illegal use. Anyone caught using a mobile phone while driving can face six points on their license and a £200 fine, following changes to the rules last year. Despite this, one recent survey showed that 26% of drivers used their phone while behind the wheel to make calls, send messages or even check social media.
Educational tool
The technology was created by Norfolk County Council’s Road Safety team in partnership with the vehicle sign technology company Westcotec. Team manager, Iain Temperton, said that the technology was ‘cutting edge’ and it was aimed at use as an educational tool throughout the county to help deal with the problem.
Westcotec is also working with police forces around the world including in Slovenia, Argentina, and New Zealand on similar warning technology for mobile phone use. The company said the aim is to help police with a general view of where the illegal use of phones is most common and, therefore, where is worth concentrating efforts.
Popular ban
The ban on using mobile phones while driving is a popular one with the public, as shown by the annual British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS). It found that 70% of people ‘disagreed strongly’ with the idea that it was safe to use mobile phones while driving. It is a rise from 56% in 2007 showing that more people are aware of the dangers than ever before.
There were still 3% of the people surveyed who ‘strongly agreed’ that it was safe to talk on a hand-held mobile phone while driving, showing there are still people out there who don’t know the dangers of talking and driving.
Clear cause of death
The facts show that using a mobile phone is very dangerous with 780 people injured in accidents in 2016, where the driver was either distracted or impaired by using their mobile phone. The new fine and points were introduced in March this year and were double the previous penalty, showing how seriously authorities view the problem. Moreover, for drivers of buses or heavy goods vehicles, the penalty is even higher, as much as £2,500.
However, the biggest problem remains that police forces don’t have the resources to be continually looking for people using their mobile phone while driving. It is why councils and the government are looking at new technology to help handle the problem, such as the system trialling in Norwich.
Compulsory do not disturb
Others are taking a different approach to deal with the problem. One Australian man is petitioning both Google and Apple to make phones automatically block incoming calls and texts when in a vehicle. It came after his friend was left in a wheelchair after being hit by a driver using her phone while driving.
Phones have a ‘do not disturb’ feature but users need to put this in force, but most people either don’t think about it or choose not to. But, the idea is to enforce this so that drivers can’t use their phones while driving.
On Apple, you can set up a Do Not Disturb While Driving, follow the instructions here for that: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/do-not-disturb-while-driving-ios-11/ You’ll need a device running iOS 11 or higher to use this.
On Android, you can use the Android Auto app which allows the user to use their phone as a handsfree device. It will also send automatic replies to people that you are driving and cannot respond. Some models also work with Android Auto as a built in function. Have a look here for more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.projection.gearhead&hl=en_GB
Whatever route is taken, there is a clear need for better enforcement of the rules in this case as, without it, more people will die because of someone ‘sending a quick message’ while driving.
Do you still use your mobile phone while driving? Or do you get mad when you see people doing it? We’d love to hear your thoughts on this matter.
My smartphone satnav App uses the internet to update live traffic and route me around it so detecting internet connection is not as useful as you might think and could cause a mis-detection.
Also what if my kids sitting in the rear are speaking on their mobile phone? That is not illegal and should not be detected!
Totally agree with you
I agree Lewis, the cutting edge tech is marvelous however, The thinking behind the idea is flawed on concept.
The article does state that the system cannot differentiate between passenger and driver use; it is only for awareness and hopefully reduction in hand-held use by drivers.
This has got to be a good thing if it helps to save lives. No one is being prosecuted…
Can you think of any occasion when new technology has not been used as a revenue generating scheme a few months after deployment? |In the first instance it is used to soften us up before it starts being used to impose fines.
Provided the technology is implemented correctly and catches mobile users, where is the problem? If it generates revenue then that is only a result of people’s stupidity. They can avoid being fined by not using their mobile. It really IS that simple.
Right up until some bright spark decides to try using it for enforcement.
You wouldn’t be holding a phone in the photograph.
In any case, Internet signal is different to sending voice or text.
So no worries
Mobiles shouldn’t be used by a driver but to describe this as cutting edge technology when it can’t discriminate who is using the phone is perhaps more akin to useless technology
A photo would clarify if you were holding your phone in your hand or not
Are you kidding? have you seen how sharp the edges of those signs are?
While I got hearing aids that work with phone on loop, so diving I would message I am using phone and not on blue tooth when I don’t need it
Wow nice phone, mine doesn’t work at all underwater.
I use apple car play connected via a cable to the ice. I don’t need to use Bluetooth, so would it show I’m illegally making a call even though I’m not holding my phone at all? Seems like this is not that state of the art!
Same. I plug my phone into a after-market built-in system. In fact sometimes I could have three passengers phones all plugged in and all being used, some hands-free, some not, but still within the law. How would it know the difference?
How does this technology know the phone is in use in a vehicle and not being used by a pedestrian walking near the sensor?
At £6000 a sign the councils will obviously seek to recoup their costs + prohibitive interest
the only problem with the automatic detection is it cant tell who is using the mobile phone, as it may be one of the passengers using it therefore no law is being broken, i agree you should not use a hand held phone while driving only on hands free, so along with the automatic detectors should be a camera to prove it was the driver using the phone.
Interesting, very early, the number of people seemingly trying to defend phone usage in the car.
We clearly need a system like this, with a forward facing camera and ANPR. Plus, of course, automatic disqualification and a whopping great fine when caught.
No – just suspicious of false positives on this as yet untested technology. I’m totally against mobile phone use by drivers whilst actually driving. Not so bothered about folk using them whilst parked up with the engine running, though I think it’s a scandalous waste of fuel.
I’m also very much against smoking while driving, which I think can be particularly distracting. However, this doesn’t seem to be a specific offence though could be covered by driving without due care and attention.
Doesn’t matter how many rules or regulations are passed you cannot regulate for stupidity
How can it differentiate between a passenger using a phone and a driver?
Absolutely pointless. It can differentiate between passengers legally using a phone, a legal handsfree call or indeed an idiot driving and using a hand held device. If we were to get a similar distraction reaction to that sign flashing that we do from speed cameras, it could also lead to an accident. An utterly useless and pointless waste of money. Cutting edge it isn’t. Technology already exists from GPS that shows when a phone is in motion ( that is how your IOS device can automatically go into do not disturb mode) – even that cannot tell if the user is legal or not. It’s another waste of ratepayers money. Sensationalist rubbish.
Assume these detectors can’t tell whether it’s driver or passenger using a phone? I don’t agree with using a phone whilst driving but don’t see the problem with a passenger doing so!
A passenger being on the phone saves them from talking to the driver, which can be much more distracting. Passengers should be banned from talking to the driver but it’s harder to penalise a passenger, without a license.
We wouldn’t need any of this if drivers did not break the law. The law is there for a reason and it applies to you. Stop thinking you’re smarter than everyone else. Your not!
‘You’re ‘ not smarter
Grammar nazi alert , hmmm I wonder what could be done to stop that
Maybe using the right grammar?
“Would of”, “should of” and “could of” are what gets me.
Of isn’t even a verb.
Wow, that’s impressive English knowledge you really are a cunning linguist init.
Not at all.
It’s basic.
I agree Mac. We even have speeding rules to stop public road being used as racetracks which are widely ignored…..I record speeds in my 30 restricted road and regularly record 50-80 every day. The police who are paid to deal with this don’t & I’ve even had intimidation visits from them…..6 ARS vehicles on one occasion. Tossers rule I’m afraid.
“and a lady believe it or not”. What a sexist comment! If the driver has passed her test to drive a van, she is just as capable of manoeuvring her vehicle as a man! Stupidity and bad driving are common across both sexes and all ages…
Reading the comments; I don’t understand why so many appear to be against this new technology. Surely prevention of drivers using hand-held devices is a good thing. The article clearly states that no one is being prosecuted; it is just to make drivers on mobiles aware of their stupidity…
It just another lame excuse to make money , my phone detects when I’m driving and stops it from sending and receiving texts and calls
But how does it know you’re driving and not just a passenger? Answer: it doesn’t. Complete pain in the proverbial so I have that feature turned off (I have hands-free anyway).
At present it’s just a warning. But combined with a camera, it’d be clear who was using the phone.
How is it a ‘lame’ excuse to make money exactly? If people don’t use their phone , no money made – simple! Besides which, it doesn’t send out a fine, it is merely a reminder to not use the phone which is surely a good thing.
While I agree that using a phone while driving is dangerous, I think that modern cars with their touch screens are equally dangerous. Having been a passenger on several occasions, seeing the driver messing about with various things on the screen can be quite scary. Also smoking while driving is also something that should be banned completely.
Never mind smoking what about vaping? I see plenty of people vaping so heavily it looks like they’re driving a steam engine! It’s not only the fact that one hand isn’t on the steering wheel, how can they even see through the fug in front of their eyes???
That’s absolutely right, when I vape now I have to turn fog lights on inside the car.
LOL!
If you’re gonna ban smoking while driving, why not add gear-sticks, window-winders/buttons, windscreen centre mirrors, dashboard controls in general, scratching/itching, adjusting your underwear, batting away insects, etc etc, etc or indeed just make it illegal to remove either hand from the ten to two or twenty to four positions?
…and next they’ll ban the driver from talking to passengers as that’s probably more dangerous than talking hands-free on a phone as you have to resist the temptation to turn and look at them. 🙁
I can drive & talk to my passengers in my car,no problem at all, I just don’t look at them but keep my eyes on the road ahead where they belong !
They belong on your face!!
More dangerous than any of these is having kids in the car, this should be banned and any anyone found to be harbouring these dangerous item should be jailed for life, with hard labour, this would achieve two things a continuous cheap labour force and a continuous income for the government , there would then be no need for human rights/health & safety, fines office staff, this would allow your politicians to have the freedom they deserve to do as they please.in an ideal world we would all be ideal people this is not an ideal world so stop trying to turn it into communist russia by creating technology that sole purpose it to generate revenue & does away with human contact
Speed Cameras & like have not reduced speeding only created an antonymous revenue people talking save lives we need more coppers not more cameras.
Technology exists on the mobile that detects movement and location of the device which includes the speed of movement. See apps like Map my walk, Life360 and many more. Life360 detects speed, mobile use and breaking which by subscription can be viewed for up to 30 days. Provided data rules are adheared to this could be used by insurance companies and enforcement authorities linking into the vehicle especially on accident investigation.
It still cannot detect who’s driving and who’s the passenger
What if the caller was on a bus?
It doesn’t take a genius. This could be used to fine drivers. This detection device equipped with a camera, it takes a photo irrespective of you being on the phone or not. If the photo (evidence) shows you aren’t holding your phone in your hand , you are free to go. If you are holding your phone in your hand them I’m sorry but no matter what you were doing with it you broke the law and should be fined and prosecuted
Totally agree. If a photo shows someone holding a phone to their head while the detector suggests a call being made, it is in everyone’s interests for them to receive a fine and points. It’s scary how many people can still be seen making calls while driving.
With Bluetooth visor kits costing a tenner there’s no excuse.
And perhaps employers of van drivers should be made to fit Bluetooth kits.
Too far?
And how many people will be fined for scratching their left ear while their passenger is making a phone call? Idiots.
Even more stupid is that your own car could be making the phone call. BMW’s now include a GSM data modem that could well be online to the dealer network as you drive past. How could you defend against a prosecution where it appears that you have no passengers and also “seem to be” making a phone call, according to the camera.
If that was the defence it can easily be checked. If the call was made automatically as you described, then there’s no further action.
I’m afraid it cannot be checked easily at all. You would need logs from the servers involved (and they probably won’t even log the correct data or not in evidentially useful form), try getting that for free from BMW, good luck with that! And that presupposes that the driver or their defence team even knows this technology exists.
So the driver pays for legal defence, pays their manufacturer more than the fine would cost to get the evidence, and cannot claim costs from the prosecution. The law is indeed an ass.
It states it does not have the ability to detect data transmission. That includes packet data such as SMS.
Furthermore, no legislation has been passed to detect it and the fact is cars and vans have had Bluetooth for over 10 years now (though lower rent cars have been more recent).
There is absolutely no cause for alarm over what will be unnecessary. This system is intended to purely raise awareness.
Oh that’s a bit harsh, I resemble that comment.
Many vans are no new enough to have Bluetooth connectivity built into the stereo.
Transits, Sprinters etc have had this feature for a number of years so attempts to legislate for this are really too late and unnecessary.
Great idea, but what if the driver was holding a square ear warmer while his passenger was on the phone, ha, you hadn’t thought of that had you?
They could fit these devices inside the car and perhaps include a device that when detection is made squirts acid into the drivers eyes, hmmm, do you think there maybe safety implications with this.
I agree, this should be used with photographic evidence to show whether the driver is using a hand held phone and thus help prosecute those who do. There is nothing wrong with a passenger using a phone. I agree with other comments though that modern cars have lots of other things such as buttons or touch screens that can distract drivers.
Good idea in principle.. but how can it tell the differnece between driver and a passenger?
The more drivers that can be caught for using their phone the better.. but not fair if they get penalised when they weren’t but a passenger was..
It’s a start.
I saw on the continent recently a system for targetting speeding drivers – if the speed is excessive the vehicle registration number is flashed up on the next gantry with the message ‘Slow down (number)’ It seemed to affect the speeding in general as there was a drop in the number of ‘boy racers’ over that section of road.
Trouble with this is that these ‘dimwits boy racers’ do not care who is around them, not even who is in the car with them, will go out there and speed just to see the car reg up in lights!
Sign should say “Car Reg (number) – expect a fine thru the post!” or something similar. Onus on the reg keeper/owner to pay the fine even if not the driver – BUT that is another subject…..
I’ve seen these used in the UK as a “nudge” device. Problem is the boy racers learn that so you have them competing to see who can get a photo on their mobile of the reg no in lights at the highest speed. Without enforcement it actually creates more risk.
I cannot understand why a lot of drivers are still breaking the law when for a few pounds they can install a hands free kit! I see it as blatant contempt of the law and the safety of other road users.
I read with interest comments posted.
Law applies to all drivers, exceptions are defined in law.
Prosecution relies on “evidence beyond all reasonable doubt” if not no prosecution.
Before any technology can be used in court, it has to be proven that the evidence it provides is, ‘as above’
Campaigning awareness/educating drivers has got to be a good thing.
We all have a civic duty to do what’s right.
Why run the risk of injuring let alone killing someone just to use a hand held phone.
My point being, would those who use their phone behind the wheel be as complacent, God forbid, someone using their phone hurts or kills a member of their family???
In the absence of the mythical being, they’ve learned the lesson, shirley ?
For me, driving while using a phone or (far worse) texting is indefensible. However, using it hands-free with voice control doesn’t feel any less safe than talking to a passenger, and lumping these things together would be really bad.
I can’t see that these signs will accurately detect just the driver using it, or the driver texting, but if they could it would amazing. It’s a tough technology to get right, and I hope that they do.
The police clearly don’t enforce mobile phone use in most cases. I’ve seen police look at drivers with phones, shake their heads, and drive on; on two occasions I have even seen police using mobile phones while driving!
Actually using it as warning feedback (like the flashing speed signs that thank me when I slow from 32 to 29) is a great idea. For those people who pick up a mobile that rings without thinking, that will really work. Sadly, for those people arrogant enough to think that the rules don’t apply to them, it wont.
Using a mobile phone in your car while driving should be an automatic 3 month ban from driving, most cars have hands free built-in but hands free devices are cheap to purchase, some people just choose to ignore this until they cause an accident or kill someone.
what happens if it is on loudspeaker? or if the passenger is using it?
daft idea won’t work at all
It’s not just the drivers talking into the phone handset, I’m more concerned of the young people who continuously Text, SMS and facebook, WhatsApp whilst driving.
Detection mechanism seems highly flawed – some of the claims seem technologically infeasible. Might as well just flash the sign at every vehicle going past.
The reason that hands-free calls (as well as hand-held) are so dangerous is because the other caller is unaware of the road conditions, and won’t forgive the driver for interrupting the conversation, whereas another passenger would stop talking to the driver ahead of a hazard.
All these petty regulations take away personal responsibility from the driver. It should be enough to know the horrendous consequences of killing someone, and the huge insurance costs after a serious collision to persuade all driver to take care.
If I’m on my Bluetooth set and a situation develops on the road, I simply say ‘Hang on a moment’ and ignore anything else they say until I can give them some of my attention again. But then I only talk to sensible people – I don’t just chat!
However, before I got the handsfree set I used an earpiece which sometimes moved in my ear, so what would happen if I was adjusting that while on the phone past one of these cameras?
Bit pointless if you’re on a legal hands free set up.
Brilliant idea, hope the trial works and it can be extended to link it with cameras for number plate recognition and taking a picture of the driver making a call. That technology already exists with speed cameras so it could be a relatively easy integration. Let’s have every speed camera across the country also running this software/ detector- caught speeding and using a phone – double penalty!
Speed camara are totally automatic the fines are sent out with no human intervention required,
Photos of mobile use would have to be viewed to see if it is the driver on the phone.
Foto must be viewed there is a Hungarian truck with my cars reg passed it on m6
I fully agree that the use of Mobile Phone technology has become very widespread – both during daily life and while driving. I also believe that the use of Hands-Free calling while driving is no more distracting than listening to the Radio or other types of music/entertainment or talking to other passengers who may be in a vehicle with you. Everything in life has the ability to distract and will become a distraction if you let it become so.
I DO NOT understand in the least how ‘ordinary non police-trained OR advanced drivers’ – hopefully of a reasonable level of intelligence and being aware of their surroundings while in charge of any vehicle – are at any greater risk of being involved in an accident situation than the ‘Police’ drivers carrying out the same manoeuvres, in the same traffic, at the same time and requiring the same level of attention (or greater in certain circumstances) while receiving constant ‘audio and perhaps video streams of indormation’ . Their Human Brains are no different to ‘ordinary folk’; will interpret data in the same manner as ‘ordinary folk’; will react the same as ‘ordinary folk’; and will be just as ‘distracted’ as ordinary folk’.
If their is any proven scientifically researched data available to show that ‘ordinary folk’ react differently to ‘Police Employees’ on the roads theni would be very pleased to be told so and shown the results.
Perhaps it is simply time to realise that ALL HUMAN BEINGS are the same under the skin and ALL of us can be distracted by Too Much Information!
While realising that horrendous, unnecessary accidents involving drivers of all types of vehicles have, and will continue to happen – I firmly believe that ‘normal drivers’ are capable (in the right environment) of holding hands-free phone conversation for a short time if necessary.
The question we must ask ourselves is this: is it actually necessary?
If the simple answer is NO, then don’t use the phone Hands-Free.
If the answer is YES, then use the phone hands-free – – but end the call as soon as possible or if circumstances dictate.
I as a member of the Human Race believe that the above is common sense,
Feel free to disagree. We all have the right to comment.
I complete disagree with everything you said except for a very important small statement you made, quote:- “I DO NOT understand in the least.”
Whenever I drive using my mobile, particularly at speeds over 100mph I feel very unsafe indeed and that I could crash at any time.
I agree. I never use my phone even hands free when driving in excess of 100MPH. It’s hard to hear anyway over the engine/road/wind noise. 😉
LOL, yeah I’ve recently found a few glasses of whisky calms my nerves quite well on these journeys.
LOL, yeah I’ve recently found a few glasses of whisky calms my nerves quite well on these journeys.
LOL, yeah I’ve recently found a few glasses of whisky calms my nerves quite well on these journeys.
Boring moderator, not playing any more.
Perhaps read my comments properly and thoroughly! I did not say that I use my phone hands free – or in any other manner while driving. I also DO understand what can happen. And I’ve seen many serious accidents, as well as having been almost taken out by a fully loaded 40 tonne truck through its drivers lack of concentration on a local B road several years ago. He wasn’t on his phone or CB and neither was I – yet he still managed to not see my car with full lighting on. So what distracted him?
My comments are only to say that all human beings get distracted. Wether in Uniform or not. Wether highly trained or not. Wether with a usable brain or not!
Also, if you’re driving at speeds over 70mph, yet alone 100mph – I assume you’re NOT resident in the UK – or perhaps you’re some sort of Diplomat with immunity?
The human brain struggles to take in the information available at speeds above approximately 50mph. This has been proven.
Seeing yet more roadside signs ‘flashing and lighting up’ simply adds to the information overflow!
Surely a passenger can’t be charged for using a phoe in a car? This new technology discreminate agaist the passengers.
There are many recently retired folk out there who would love to assist in the detection of mobile phone use whilst driving, however as yet most police forces won’t accept video evidence of illegal phone use when submitted by members of the public. This would solve the resource problem !
LOL, Old boy video’s guy on phone, guy sees old boy do this, gets out of his car, beats the s***t out of old boy and steals his camera. THE END
Are you suggesting that retired folk should be immune from prosecution if they use their phone to film a younger person using a phone? What if the younger person was really using his phone to film the retired guy using his phone to film him (the young guy) using his phone . . .
Obviously a well thought out proposal. The scary thing is that it’s exactly the kind of muddled legislation we now get foisted on us from Holyrood!
Don’t phones on the “3” network use data rather then voice? If so they would not be detected?
I think that is a typo in the original article. There’s no way such a device can distinguish between data and voice unless it were a basestation itself.
Surely a passenger can’tbecharged for using a phoe in a car? This new technology dicriminates against the passengers.
Just an other advance of big brother technology, where crime goes undetected while drivers keep getting fleeced, it sound good but it will just be an other money maker, perhaps we’ve moved to communist russia and nobody’s told us
Why do you want illegal driving to go unchecked? Why do you distinguish illegal driving from crime? If you don’t want to be fleeced, don’t drive illegally. This is not another case of drivers being fleeded, it is crime prevention.
Surely a passenger can’t be ch?arged for using a phone in a car? Discrimination.
And how does the road sign feel about passengers using mobile phones?
This is a complete waste of money as it will not deter the hardcore mobile-using drivers.
I would like to see a mandatory 12 month ban as with drink-driving.
What about turning the radio on/off or talking to passenger or making cup of tea.
Yes. I wonder how many accidents have been caused by people tuning the radio, changing a CD, selecting an MP3, programming the satnav…?
Can we have some signs to prompt us for seatbelts, check the tyres and oil. What a nanny state. Just put the fines up and ban people it’s not difficult
I use my phone as Sat nav. Where does that leave me legally? I am not holding it, I put it in the cup holder between the front seats.
Of course, it may be a passenger legitimately using the mobile phone.
Using a phone whilst driving is like drink driving what was acceptable years ago is now considered as being totally unacceptable.
Sorry to disagree with your argument.
So many idiots of all ages and backgrounds STILL think it doesn’t apply to them or if they are not on a main road – education and peer pressure simply isn’t working with this one.
Rather than sending a signal can it not just set them on fire ?
I get very angry when i see people answering their phone whilst driving,our son was killed by a drunk driver in Menorca on 01/04/18 the driver was given a 12 month yes 12 month suspended sentence and flew back to New York on the 06/04/18 where is the justice,we thought that justice was bad in this country,it seems that the Spanish dont give 2 hoots.
Sorry for your loss John
This is what seems to be the beginning of a really good call. As Technology improves then these bits of digital kit will stop this ridiculous crime all together. As someone who has a personal hatred of all mobile device technology, the sooner this comes into play nationally, the better.
Hi,
How about sending the following automatic message to all car drivers detected using a mobile phone whilst driving;
“How would you feel if you heard that your own partner or child had been killed because some one was using their mobile phone whilst driving, as you do. And remember you could loose your licence for a while but some one else will loose a loved one for LIFE! You would never intentionally go out to kill anyone so why do it in your car? Please don’t risk it.”
Or this one…. “the penalty for driving while using a mobile phone is death, it could be you or it could be someone else, can I have your phone when you’re gone :-)”
Lose not loose 🙂 Might work if it could differentiate between the driver and passengers. If I got this when I hadn’t been using my phone it would just p*** me off. Besides die hard mobile users wouldn’t take any notice anyway.
It infuriates me when drivers use their mobiles when driving !!!
Do they think their time and message/call us so important that it can’t wait until they have stopped driving.
It isn’t common knowledge what injuries and deaths the behaviour can cause.
How doo they navigate and be road aware when they are looking away from the window screen ?.
They are obviously much more skilled than me !!!!
That’s all folks. Bye. Shirley.
Here’s a thought, my iPhone has a setting which stops my phone from sending and receiving, why don’t the mobile phone companies make it so you can’t switch it off
Instead of wasting money on signs that won’t stop people from using their phones , unless it just another excuse to make money
And they’d be like “ oh well the deaths still continue, but look on the bright side, we’re making money “
Because it can’t tell whether you’re driving or a passenger, including on a train or bus, in a taxi etc. etc. It just detects that you’re moving above a certain speed…which presumably also wouldn’t work if you’re stuck/crawling in traffic.
i hate when i see drivers of small and large vehicles using mobile phones, 1 example is gary neville filmed on the m6 in his bentley using his phone but yet sky and the bbc condone this by employing him bunch of fools what signal does that send to other drivers
My very point. I suggest it’s even more distracting and therefore dangerous, than a phone call, even hands free.
Having been video interviewed myself for broadcast (not while driving!), I know how distracting it must be to have the interview whilst driving. Do you see how frequently the interviewee turns to face the camera in the passenger seat?
That should be heavily banned and penalised too.