XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy.anon-server   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:03:51 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I find it ironic that a laptop is an essential feature of a modern police   
   cruiser. In the 25 years or so that I've worked in the public safety   
   sector it's went from a very simplistic status display to a full blown   
   system. Of course, an officer would never be screwing around with the   
   laptop while driving. :)   
      
   It's probably a personal shortcoming but I find screwing around with the   
   visual display to change a channel, select the USB input, and so forth to   
   be distracting. I'm not sure that is an improvement on the old pushbutton   
   radios.   
      
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