New law on diving while on mobiles..

"Ivor Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> so what's your argument exactly? - that your driving
>> skill is such that if you drive with a mobile phone your
>> skill is not impaired?
>
> Driving skill is an individual thing, you simply cannot say *everyone* is
> a more dangerous driver whilst doing a particular thing, be it using a
> phone, eating a sandwich or whatever.
>
> One person might be a risk to everyone within a 5 mile radius simply by
> getting behind the wheel (although one hopes the driving test would weed
> out the worst). Another person may very well be capable of driving at
> 70mph while both on the phone *and* eating a sandwich..! You simply cannot
> reduce every single person to the lowest common denominator.



indeed - but you can put in some basic, common sense rules - such as, no
matter how great you are at driving, you have to take a driving test to
prove it.
no matter how great you are at driving, you have to keep your hands on the
wheel.
no matter how great, you dont use a phone.

nobody would claim you WILL crash as a result - but it's known that many
will.


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Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/

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"Jon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> [email protected]lid declared for all the world to
> hear...
> > You simply cannot
> > reduce every single person to the lowest common
> > denominator.
>
> Maybe not, but in the interest of safety the
> law/rules/call it whatever you want should me
> manufactured with the lowest ability levels in mind.

Bring back the man with the red flag then and be done with it.

Ivor

"Paul Cummins" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In article <[email protected]>,


>> nobody would claim you WILL crash as a result - but it's known that
>> many will.
>
> On what basis is it known??? That's the whole point - where is the
> british research to support this statistic.



you need research to know that driving while not looking at the road
increases your chance of an accident?

i dare say there's no research into whether driving with your eyes shut
increases the chance of an accident either.



--
Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/

"Paul Cummins" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (the dog from that
> film you saw) wrote:

[snip]

> > you need research to know that driving while not
> > looking at the road increases your chance of an
> > accident?
>
> When are they to ban controls, speedos, rear-view
> mirrors, a-pillars, sunglasses, sun-shades, radios,
> gearsticks and passengers then? They also cause you to
> take your eyes off the road.

Exactly..! Try driving a double deck bus with 60+ screaming schoolkids on
it. That's *far* more distracting than any phone call, believe me..!

Ivor