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Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:49 pm
by Petingo
Now they are suggesting hands free phoning in cars should be banned.

They say it is “distracting”.

Quite.

Is it any more “distracting” than speaking to your passengers?

I wouldn’t have thought so.

In fact, I would suggest talking to passengers is more “distracting” on account of one often turns one’s head to look at said passengers.

At least we can talk on the hands free without that particular risk.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49320473

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:57 pm
by beingsoblase
I would like to know how exactly would this be pleeced (one for the gaunty crowd there!)

What I would like to see clamped down on is these people who are constantly fucking about with a phone stuck on their window picking a song from their twattish driving playlist.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:12 pm
by Zambo
Joshua Harris, of road safety charity Brake, said research showed using a hands-free phone "can impair a driver in the same way as a hand-held device and so it makes sense that the law treats these acts equally".

Absolute bollocks. That's all I have to say.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:14 pm
by The Ghost of Alex Higgins
No place for phones in cars you silly cunts

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:23 pm
by Zambo
The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:No place for phones in cars you silly cunts

No place for smoking, eating, getting a blow job, pushing a button to turn the radio on. Assume it's OK to breathe.

Waste of fucking time, there are hardly any patrol cars on the roads as it is, and how are they going to see if someone has a hands free anyway.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:25 pm
by Petingo
Zambo wrote:
The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:No place for phones in cars you silly cunts

No place for smoking, eating, getting a blow job, pushing a button to turn the radio on. Assume it's OK to breathe.

Waste of fucking time, there are hardly any patrol cars on the roads as it is, and how are they going to see if someone has a hands free anyway.



:lol:

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:27 pm
by Vespa
I forgot you can use phones for calling people.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:30 pm
by Hillman avenger
Petingo wrote:Now they are suggesting hands free phoning in cars should be banned.

They say it is “distracting”.

Quite.

Is it any more “distracting” than speaking to your passengers?

I wouldn’t have thought so.

In fact, I would suggest talking to passengers is more “distracting” on account of one often turns one’s head to look at said passengers.

At least we can talk on the hands free without that particular risk.
There was an interview on PM with a woman who had been on a motorcycle hit by a van whose driver was on a hands-free phone call. She lost her leg. He got 6 points and £100 fine.
Evan Davies raised the question of "isn't it the same as talking to a passenger" and she made the very good point that a passenger is with you in your car and can moderate the conversation when you are in a pressure situation. Someone somewhere else has no idea.

Around here there are a lot of wizzy BMWs, Mercs and the rest, all of which will have Bluetooth. Yet every day I see people driving such cars while holding a phone. Too stupid or too lazy to connect them a
pparently.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49320473

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:13 pm
by subsub
Zambo wrote:
The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:No place for phones in cars you silly cunts

No place for smoking, eating, getting a blow job, pushing a button to turn the radio on. Assume it's OK to breathe

BASIC HUMAN RIGHT FOR ME, INNIT, TO USE MY PHONE WHILE I'M DRIVING?! :rolleyes:

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:18 am
by AlcoholBrazil
Nothing gets between me and my bars of chocolate and that includes nanny state.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:37 am
by Zambo
subsub wrote:
Zambo wrote:
The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:No place for phones in cars you silly cunts

No place for smoking, eating, getting a blow job, pushing a button to turn the radio on. Assume it's OK to breathe

BASIC HUMAN RIGHT FOR ME, INNIT, TO USE MY PHONE WHILE I'M DRIVING?! :rolleyes:

If you can't use a hands free and drive safely you obviously shouldn't be driving.

Are you feeling OK by the way, as you've disagreed with Pet. :D

ps. Anyone caught using a mobile phone in their hand should be banned from driving.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:21 am
by subsub
Zambo wrote:Are you feeling OK by the way, as you've disagreed with Pet

We disagree on a lot of things, Zambo.
He supports a shit football team, for one :mrgreen:

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:32 am
by Steve Hunt
Petingo wrote:Now they are suggesting hands free phoning in cars should be banned.

They say it is “distracting”.

Quite.

Is it any more “distracting” than speaking to your passengers?

I wouldn’t have thought so.

In fact, I would suggest talking to passengers is more “distracting” on account of one often turns one’s head to look at said passengers.

At least we can talk on the hands free without that particular risk.





It's bonkers, Pet.

But there you go, welcome to modern Britain.

A few years ago I was driving on the M25 & could see a lorry ahead of me swerving across all four lanes. It was during the summer in the early evening. The diver was either pissed or falling asleep, or both.

On my handsfree phone I dialed 999 and told the police exactly where I was and what I was witnessing. I soon got on the M11 & left the wayward lorry still on the M25. i never heard any news of a pile up, so I can only assume that the police dispatched a car to check the lorry driver was ok (which is what they tol;d me they were going to do).

I guess that in future I'd just let the lorry career all over the place until he hit someone as I won't be able to legally use my phone to warn the emergency services.

Madness.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:32 am
by Roy Twing
Hillman avenger wrote:
Petingo wrote:Now they are suggesting hands free phoning in cars should be banned.

They say it is “distracting”.

Quite.

Is it any more “distracting” than speaking to your passengers?

I wouldn’t have thought so.

In fact, I would suggest talking to passengers is more “distracting” on account of one often turns one’s head to look at said passengers.

At least we can talk on the hands free without that particular risk.
There was an interview on PM with a woman who had been on a motorcycle hit by a van whose driver was on a hands-free phone call. She lost her leg. He got 6 points and £100 fine.
Evan Davies raised the question of "isn't it the same as talking to a passenger" and she made the very good point that a passenger is with you in your car and can moderate the conversation when you are in a pressure situation. Someone somewhere else has no idea.

Around here there are a lot of wizzy BMWs, Mercs and the rest, all of which will have Bluetooth. Yet every day I see people driving such cars while holding a phone. Too stupid or too lazy to connect them a
pparently.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49320473


It's not 'a very good point', - it's just the best the safety extremists can come up with.
What about a bunch of loud kids of varying ages in the car? - they won't have a clue as to what is a 'pressure situation' or not - should they be banned next, or just anaesthetised?
As has been said numerous times, these people won't be happy until the bloke with red flag walks in front of us all again.

Re: Hands free phoning in cars to be banned.?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:50 am
by Zambo
Pretty obvious I would have thought.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... l#comments