XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy.anon-server   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-10 19:08:12 +0000, rbowman said:   
   > 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.   
      
   So many people complained about silly touch sensitive buttons on the   
   steering wheel controls and the console air conditioning controls, that   
   carmakers started replacing them with proper buttons and knobs again.   
      
   My 1994 car has a cassette radio in it (the original factory one).  :-)   
      
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