XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy.anon-server
From: ithinkiam@gmail.com
Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-10-09 21:25:37 +0000, badgolferman said:
>
>> Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>
>>>> Not necessarily. Just drive around town for 20 minutes and see all
>>>> the middle aged women staring at their phones as they drive.
>>>
>>> How would you know what they are really doing? Can you see their
>>> screens when you stalk them?
>>
>> I ride a motorcycle so I must be hyper aware of what drivers around me
>> are doing. Yes, I do look inside their cars and see their heads
>> pointed down to their laps or phones being held out to the side while
>> ignoring the road in front. You can also tell when someone ahead of
>> you is looking at their phone. They cannot keep up with the traffic
>> ahead of them and leave large gaps, they drive erratically and can't
>> stay in their lane. Sitting at an intersection waiting to make a left
>> turn I can see drivers turn in front of me and immediately start
>> looking at their phones again. This is an epidemic and not constrained
>> to just young people.
>>
>> What does it matter what they're looking at on their phones? The fact
>> is their attention is on something else than the road and they are
>> placing others in danger. Are you one of them too?
>
> It's been illegal to drive while using a cellphone here in New Zealand
> for a good number of years now, and yet there are still numerous morons
> doing it. The problem is that the fine if they get caught is pitifully
> tiny. The law needs to be changed to simply destory the phone on the
> spot when someone is caught using it while driving ... even then there
> will still be morons who don't care less.
>
In the UK, you get points on your licence and a fine.
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