Texting and Driving, Do you do it? Why?

[BigDL]

Ironically, factually incorrect.

 

Every call, SMS and WhattsApp is time stamped .... VERY easy to prove if somebody was busy texting ..... if one could get around the privacy issues ....

 

 

Imagine the following option : 25% discount on your insurance premium .. subject to disclosing your phone activity list when claiming ..... I can already hear the excuses coming in ....

Privacy issues can be overcome by going direct to the network as it is a criminal investigation. Don’t have to see content, just demonstrate texting during the journey.

[Quagga]

In the UK there have been a number of convictions for causing Death by Dangerous Driving, where they have demonstrated that there were texts sent during the time leading up to the accident.

 

An example below :

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/19/football-agent-peter-morrison-jailed-death-dangerous-driving

I am not saying it can not be done, just that is is more difficult to proof it.

[Patchelicious]

Privacy issues can be overcome by going direct to the network as it is a criminal investigation. Don’t have to see content, just demonstrate texting during the journey.

The easiest way to overcome the privacy issue is to get consent by incentivisation. Reward good behaviour.

 

eg: "If you allow this app, that monitors phone traffic, to access your telematix device, we will reduce your premiums by 30% and waive excesses."

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

Didn't Australia implement a camera installed on overpasses to catch texter's?

It was quite successful if I recall the article.

[ChrisF]

I am not saying it can not be done, just that is is more difficult to proof it.

 

Clearly nothing is perfect.

 

But for the "serial texters" there will be ENOUGH text traffic to prove the point ...

[Patchelicious]

Clearly nothing is perfect.

 

But for the "serial texters" there will be ENOUGH text traffic to prove the point ...

You obviously haven't watched Wonderwoman 

[ChrisF]

You obviously haven't watched Wonderwoman 

 

Okaayyyyyy .... if you put it like that ..... 

[Sven137]

Didn't Australia implement a camera installed on overpasses to catch texter's?

It was quite successful if I recall the article.

 They also have undercover cops on motorbikes pulling the assholes

 

[Patchelicious]

 They also have undercover cops on motorbikes pulling the assholes

 

When you cant even see the cops with their blue lights on, how are you going to see a cyclists....

[Uni]

I'm not squeaky clean in this regard or any other road transgressions - I do drive to work with my travel mug in hand - but this morning at about 8:30 when the traffic start to ease - on the N3 you notice the cars starting to leave large gaps in front of them ...then you know they're on their phones. This morning as I was trying to pass said cars - I had 3 slowly drifting off their lane as their eyes were glued to the screens.  

 

the argument of 'I've never had an accident' - is what pisses me off because they're unaware of the consequences of their actions - they might end up causing an accident and they drive on obliviously.  

 

maybe mandatory dashcams and all transgresors have their insurance premium hit hard is the answer - because as times get tougher maybe hitting the pocket is the only way. 

[Stretch]

Every single person in this thread has used their phone while driving recently. Even if it's to answer a Bluetooth connected call or glance at a message that pops up... Or responded with a quick yes or no... If you say you haven't you're lying.

[lechatnoir]

Every single person in this thread has used their phone while driving recently. Even if it's to answer a Bluetooth connected call or glance at a message that pops up... Or responded with a quick yes or no... If you say you haven't you're lying.

 

One is permitted, the other is not. pretty sure you know that...

[pe3nguin]

Every single person in this thread has used their phone while driving recently. Even if it's to answer a Bluetooth connected call or glance at a message that pops up... Or responded with a quick yes or no... If you say you haven't you're lying.

I haven't driven a car in many months, so I will happily roll it back to when I was driving and no I most certainly did not touch my phone. My phone is permanently on silent so I have no idea if a message or call is coming through.

 

Please don't try and justify your choices by painting us all with the same brush. You can call us liars if that makes you feel better. Perhaps this is how you acknowledge you are doing something you shouldn't, and it is simply easier to not accept responsibility. 

 

I'm not criticising you. You can self-reflect if you choose, but I make a conscious decision when I get in a car to give my full attention to the act of driving. Cars are scary.

[Stretch]

 

 

I haven't driven a car in many months, so I will happily roll it back to when I was driving and no I most certainly did not touch my phone. My phone is permanently on silent so I have no idea if a message or call is coming through.

 

Please don't try and justify your choices by painting us all with the same brush. You can call us liars if that makes you feel better. Perhaps this is how you acknowledge you are doing something you shouldn't, and it is simply easier to not accept responsibility.

 

I'm not criticising you. You can self-reflect if you choose, but I make a conscious decision when I get in a car to give my full attention to the act of driving. Cars are scary.

Easy there Tiger.. No need to get your hair up. You'll notice I said or or or.... Yet you find a way to come up with holier than thou statements like "don't justify your choices".

 

I accept calls on my handsfree and that requires pressing an answer button on my phone. 99% of people (except for your holiness) do that... That was all I was getting at...

[Stretch]

One is permitted, the other is not. pretty sure you know that...

So you're telling me that when your phone is mounted on your dashboard and you driving along and a WhatsApp notification appears briefly your eyes aren't briefly drawn to that.? You are not interacting with the phone.. But it has distracted you. The only way to prevent that is to turn off data before you drive and noone does that... Except Maybe that penguin dude..he probably does

[pe3nguin]

Easy there Tiger.. No need to get your hair up. You'll notice I said or or or.... Yet you find a way to come up with holier than thou statements like "don't justify your choices".

 

I accept calls on my handsfree and that requires pressing an answer button on my phone. 99% of people (except for your holiness) do that... That was all I was getting at...

 

But your "or" statements were not necessarily applicable to everyone? To which you conclude that if none of them are applicable we are supposedly liars?

 

Wouldn't claiming we are liars makes you the one who has assumed the moral highroad as well? Seems a bit disingenuous to critique my response with the "holier than thou" line.

 

PS: Don't have to turn off the data since I'm not looking at the phone for the journey.

 

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