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Bathed In A Yellow Glow
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When will we implement capital punishment for traffic offences?
Murder rape or kill, a judge gives you slap on the wrist. Commit a traffic offence, police execute you on the side of the road. Maybe our pollies should get their priorities straight and focus on real crime. |
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Like most of us I see silliness and poor car control on roads every day and in many cases you can see a phone in their hand or to their ear.
I don’t see a problem with increasing demerit points for this type of offense when clearly too many people are willingly allowing themselves to be distracted when concentration is what helps save lives. I've been involved in two not at fault accidents in the last ten or so years and on both occasions the other driver hit me while being busy on the phone. Summary execution should only be used for extreme offenses like Camry driver’s hogging the right hand lane. . Last edited by Express; 25-11-2015 at 05:26 PM. Reason: spelling |
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If this what it takes to stop people using mobiles I'm for it, no excuses for the offenders.
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I feel the phone while driving penalties should be much more severe for texting than for phone talking.Whilst talking is a distraction it's probably not much worse than talking to passengers in the vehicle BUT texting should be an automatic on the spot minimum 30 day licence suspension and$500 fine.Second offence 12months suspension and $2000 fine
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some people say hands free is only marginally less safe than actually holding the phone. it is proven that it is a lot different to talking to a passenger in the car. |
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What about eating food, lollies ,changing radio stations etc? Just as distracting,
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as an aside, (and off topic) unless i'm on an interstate road trip, i have a 'no eating' policy in my car. my wife's car on the other hand, looks like a giant rubbish bin. |
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What about the photo in the OP showing the emergency staff cleaning up the mess because someone needed to send a text, what about the parents what about relatives of the victims. What about the cost to society??
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Good.. As a motorbike rider i see morons using there phones a lot while driving or siting at lights ect.
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On the news right now is a story about the distraction phones cause for people walking.
Walking into moving cars, walking off train platforms and walking into a whole manner of obstructions. Some people can’t walk while on the phone, it’s frightening to think how they could handle something far more complex such as driving a vehicle. It said one in seven road deaths are distracted pedestrians. |
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Imagine if all road travel was treated like a race from point A to point B. No stereo, no eating or drinking, no conversation, both hands on the wheel, 100% iron clad focus. Helmet, gloves, HANS device seats, roll cage. Road toll and travel times would be a lot lower. A lot of automotive tech originated from racing, so why not the attitude and common-sense safety measures. This should be the approach of motoring safety bodies. Average joe with no passion or skill for driving should take the bus.
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You want a real deterrent?, confiscate their phones for a month!
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if it's important enough to increase the demerit points over Christmas then it's important enough to keep them at that level all year.
Vic may be crap in many ways when it comes to road rules, but at least we don't have double demerits (and we do have footpath motorcycle parking ![]() |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRYBFacl1E
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I dislike distracted drivers as much as the next person. The problem as I see it is the massive and long term focus on speed, that has people totally believing they are safe if they obey the magic sign. Driving in Europe there are a **** load more police on the road, and they speed like crazy. There are almost no dim wits though.
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Only over Christmas?....Make it permanent and put it in the same league as drink driving.
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It's double demerits over xmas, then after xmas the demerits will go from 3 to 4, at double demerits a P plater will lose his/her license on the spot, but probably still will not stop them.
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Smash the idiots . I hate people that use mobiles without hands free. They deserve everything they get imo. Bought all my kids hands free for there cars and at minimal cost too. Far cheaper than the fines being handed out. Maybe that should be part of the fine. No driving until car has an adequate hands free system installed.
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That doesn't stop the texting which is even worse. How many times nowadays you see drivers in front at the lights looking down and then not going when the light turns green. You know what they're doing and many try to keep doing it while they're driving. You need some technology that disables the comms functions of the phone except wireless talk.
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I've thought about that, but what about passengers? the focus is a big enough pita when sync2 disables some functions when moving so even the passenger can't use them but why should passengers be penalised on phone use?
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I haven't used it yet, but I assume that I can talk back to send a return text.
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There are a couple of countries in Europe where even handsfree is banned and the phones cannot be switched on and used unless the vehicle is stationary with the engine off.
There are also countries who are currently reviewing their laws to also possibly implement total bans on in car usage. There are also countries in Europe where SatNav can’t be set while the vehicle is in motion. Some owners of Euro cars will see the warnings that using their navigation may be illegal in some instances, I know my Merc warns me every time I start it. In fact Mercedes disables the input use of SatNav while the car is in motion in some countries. I’ve seen on television where the police use scanners to detect when the vehicle drives by if devices like phones are switched on. |
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