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| chris_leyson:
In the UK The Road Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 was updated in 2003 with regulation 110 "Mobile Telephones". Between 1986 and 2003 the law was a bit sketchy. Old copies of the ARRL or RSGB handbooks might shed a bit of light on the subject from a historical perspective. |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 31, 2020, 04:05:16 am ---Use of mobile phones by the driver while driving were introduced in Australia in 2012, which wasn't that long ago. --- End quote --- They were in place by 1999 in several jurisdictions, NSW, ACT, VIC, and SA, at least. Care of a nationalisation of the road rules. Given the narrow period of use of car phones in Australia, we can guess your age pretty well. |
| pardo-bsso:
--- Quote from: Brumby on October 31, 2020, 06:42:52 am ---The thing I suspect, though, as being the most significant factor in the risk profile is SMS. You have to take your eyes off the road to read them - and, heaven forbid, type! --- End quote --- Typing is easier when your phone has physical buttons, albeit a bit hard on the thumb sometimes |
| Siwastaja:
Here, the law forbidding mobile phone use except handfree is from as early as 2002, but we have absolutely zero enforcement for the law. With some of the slowest speed limits on the planet, speeding laws are strictly enforced (for simple revenue purposes; the official police stance is that you should be speeding a bit to generate budget for them; which makes complete sense, if you speed enough to generate 200 EUR ticket/camera, you are following the standard European limits!), everything else goes, including texting and talking to the phone. Very good it's forbidden, but I'm even more concerned about people driving brain completely shut down. Just today, someone ran red lights: I pressed the horn down some 10 seconds straight, while looking directly at their face (a 50yo male). No reaction whatsoever; no head movement, no facial change. They were just driving in an autonomous droid "follow the previous car" mode. Not speeding, no "reckless driving", not driving a high-performance BMW. These are people who normally drive under speed limits, in the middle of the road (law clearly says: on the right end of the lane, period), blocking the usual traffic. When I overtake them and switch high beams on at exact correct moment, it takes some 5-10 seconds of reaction time for them to turn high beams off, if that happens at all. Because their brain is shut down. If anything unexpected happens, it's a 100% surely accident. Officially, they are the role models because they drive at 70 km/h max. This is very funny when we have a road which would be 110 km/h in any other European country, including our neighbor Sweden, but we have the 80 km/h limit furher taken down to 70 km/h by such white Kias. It becomes even funnier when a few semi trucks get behind them and cannot overtake. Then your only option is to participate in the massive jam getting even more massive, or start "driving recklessly". |
| madires:
Modern cars have built-in mobile phones for telemetry, OTA updates and other fancy stuff. I wonder when car manufacturers will add phone calls. >:D PS: I'm using the bluetooth based hands-free feature of my car stereo. |
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