Cars & Transportation Texting while driving

[Deliverance]

*Warning* Graphic images. Not for the feint hearted.



Is a major problem on our roads. I'm sure we've all been guilty of it, or know someone that has been. I have been guilty of it and i'll be the first to admit that and have vowed to never do it again after realising how stupid I was.

Too many people believe they are invincible on the roads and think nothing will ever happen to them, thus the increasing negative attitude.

I constantly see people of all ages texting while driving while driving past them and I think it needs to stop. Unfortunately, I believe until someone close to them is involved in a collision they won't stop doing it. Perhaps young drivers need to be lectured on the dangers of this. I am not sure of the Legislation involving this but perhaps bigger penalties need to be applied to people who are guilty of it.

Discuss.

Couldn't agree more. If you text and drive you are a complete F***wit. Unless you are Batman, you could not be sending something so important that it couldn't wait a few minutes until you got home, or at least pull over on a side road. (and seriously Batman would probably have some technology to overcome the problem)

 

[BotsMaster]

Btw- driving home last night really wanted to listen to my Ipod. I had to get it out of my handbag, hook it up to my car stereo, then proceed to find song/s I wanted to play.

Imo, this was more dangerous than texting. Could I get fined for that??

You couldn't have hooked up your iPod BEFORE you set off for home?

 

[Gibbsy]

I have no sympathy for anyone who texts while driving and gets fined. Not to mention the whole death aspect. It's very selfish

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Couldn't agree more. If you text and drive you are a complete F***wit. Unless you are Batman, you could not be sending something so important that it couldn't wait a few minutes until you got home, or at least pull over on a side road. (and seriously Batman would probably have some technology to overcome the problem)

He would have a Bat-texter.

Back in the Dark Ages, before phones and iPods, there was a traffic violation along the lines of "driving without due care or attention". That would cover the "it's an iPod not a phone" scenario.

 

[skilts]

You arseholes should get your priorities right. It's much worse to miss a phone call, or not send a message, than to impale yourself on some Armco. After all, if you don't send a message, or answer the phone, before the time it's safe to do so, the person in question could be dead, through that insidious, debilitating disease - lack of attention.

 

[Glenno23]

Not a texting story, but a few weeks back we had some bushfires near our house and one of my wife's friends husbands was heading towards his house (near the smoke) and he was told to stop by the police. So he pulled to the side of the road to ring her to see if she was out and ok, and the cop fined him for "talking on a mobile whilst driving" even though he was pulled over

It seems that having your keys in the ignition class as driving and thats how the law is applied

Thats why i always use hands free and never text

 

[kfc1]

Used to do it on my nokia as i didnt need to look at the fone to type. Mainly on the way home from work in the slow traffic

Have done it occasionally on the freeway with very little traffic around. A bit ashamed tbh.

Regularly read BF while stopped at the lights for long periods #yolo

 

[kfc1]

Not a texting story, but a few weeks back we had some bushfires near our house and one of my wife's friends husbands was heading towards his house (near the smoke) and he was told to stop by the police. So he pulled to the side of the road to ring her to see if she was out and ok, and the cop fined him for "talking on a mobile whilst driving" even though he was pulled over

It seems that having your keys in the ignition class as driving and thats how the law is applied

Thats why i always use hands free and never text

Thats just ****ed. Absolutely disgusting

I can understand not permitting people to text at lights/in stationary traffic etc bcos it would make it very difficult to enforce the laws...but this is just disgusting. U make the effort to be safe and u still get pinged. For what? Wanting to keep ur flipping air con going while u make the call?

If ur gonna get pinged even when u do it safely u may as well not bother pulling over

 

[Catfish Alley]

I'm pretty sure that law is the same in most places in the world. Key in the ignition means you are in control of the vehicle.

 

[kfc1]

I'm pretty sure that law is the same in most places in the world. Key in the ignition means you are in control of the vehicle.

Yep and its ****ed. There is no safety reasoning for it at all, its just revenue raising. And as i pointed out, it removes the incentive to not do it while actually driving

 

[Catfish Alley]

Yep and its ******. There is no safety reasoning for it at all, its just revenue raising. And as i pointed out, it removes the incentive to not do it while actually driving

I think the law is fine. More the interpretation that's a problem. The cop in the above story should have just asked him to remove the keys.

 

[HBF]

Don't even touch my phone when i'm in the car.

 

[MrKK]

I think the law is fine. More the interpretation that's a problem. The cop in the above story should have just asked him to remove the keys.

Or just not be complete Syd.

 

[BotsMaster]

Regularly read BF while stopped at the lights for long periods #yolo

I think even posting on BF is fine while driving.

 

[radiojake]

Thats just ******. Absolutely disgusting

I can understand not permitting people to text at lights/in stationary traffic etc bcos it would make it very difficult to enforce the laws...but this is just disgusting. U make the effort to be safe and u still get pinged. For what? Wanting to keep ur ruddy air con going while u make the call?

If ur gonna get pinged even when u do it safely u may as well not bother pulling over

Funny how you didn't seem to disbelieve this story (not that there's a reason too) but when little graham mentioned pigs sitting on a highway with a radar gun while a bushfire burnt out of control, you called bullshit...

 

[kfc1]

Funny how you didn't seem to disbelieve this story (not that there's a reason too) but when little graham mentioned pigs sitting on a highway with a radar gun while a bushfire burnt out of control, you called bullshit...

littlegraham didn't see anybody being pulled over and is known for being very anti-police, it's not difficult to imagine some exaggeration of the truth

 

[Aussie Assault]

Had a mate (a tradie in a work van for those interested) who got done by the cops for reading the newspaper while driving. Had it spread across the steering wheel as he was cruising around town & didn't see what was so illegal about it.

 

[Gibbsy]

Had a mate (a tradie in a work van for those interested) who got done by the cops for reading the newspaper while driving. Had it spread across the steering wheel as he was cruising around town & didn't see what was so illegal about it.

Careless driving also known as driving without due care. Pretty ****ing stupid thing to do, I'd have thought. It takes a lot of concentration to read so he would have no focus on the road

 

[Aussie Assault]

Careless driving also known as driving without due care. Pretty ******* stupid thing to do, I'd have thought. It takes a lot of concentration to read so he would have no focus on the road

Sorry, just to reiterate my post, I completely understood it being illegal but my mate (the driver) couldn't believe he got done for it.

Same bloke has put petrol in his boss' diesel work van, twice.

 

[grimface_87]

Btw- driving home last night really wanted to listen to my Ipod. I had to get it out of my handbag, hook it up to my car stereo, then proceed to find song/s I wanted to play.

Imo, this was more dangerous than texting. Could I get fined for that??

Yep:

Victoria

All driversTougher penalties for illegal use of mobile phones and other technologies

From 25 November 2013:All drivers face tougher penalties for illegal use of a mobile phone or interacting with other units that have visual displays while driving (eg. DVD players or tablet computers) that are not driver's aids.

The penalties are:

• 4 demerit points
• $433 fine

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/SafetyAndRules/SafetyIssues/MobilePhonesAndDriving.htm

 

[BotsMaster]

Had a mate (a tradie in a work van for those interested) who got done by the cops for reading the newspaper while driving. Had it spread across the steering wheel as he was cruising around town & didn't see what was so illegal about it.

What more do you expect from someone who left school in year 9?

 

[DrKrieger]

Careless driving also known as driving without due care. Pretty ******* stupid thing to do, I'd have thought. It takes a lot of concentration to read so he would have no focus on the road

I've heard from a couple of riders down that way that there's at least one person in Melbourne with their ipad taped to their steering wheel.

 

[Kipz]

I drive with my knee while texting, I absolutely lose my shit when I see people with both hands off of the wheel and nothing adequate placed on the wheel to steer it. A child could run out of anywhere FFS.

 

[PP34]

So many tossers in this thread endangering others just to use a ****ing phone.

Honestly get a grip.

 

[exe ex machina]

Sometimes on weekends I even text while riding a motorbike. Don't think many can do that.