I honestly thought I had seen everything, until.....

sunnysoutheast

In the early hours of yesterday morning I was on the M9 northbound and I passed an A6 whose driver was.......

.......holding an iPad as well as the steering wheel watching TV or a movie.

I would have taken a photo except the irony of crashing while trying to do so didn't escape me.

bazz26

Definite candidate for a Darwin award assuming he lives long enough.

ba_barabus

I mentioned it here yesterday but I've seen someone watching Netflix while at the wheel.

MagicMarker

New Game of Thrones probably.

Worth it.

Stheno

I've seen people on tablets a few times tbh

quadrifoglio verde

What's the legality of this as it's not a mobile phone.

Stupid though

Slicemeister

Ok to look at a HUD but not a screen. Soon it'll be illegal to drive the car you're driving.

Stheno

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

What's the legality of this as it's not a mobile phone.

Stupid though

Haven't they changed to wording to "communications device" instead of mobile phone?

gctest50

,

http://www.google.com/patents/US8482535

The Backwards Man

Saw a fella in a car transporter watching Coronation Street on a 12v TV going down the M40 in England one evening.

RandomAccess

That could be the same guy I saw on a bicycle yesterday!
Must be trying to watch all past episodes of 24 before the next season starts tomorrow.

RandomAccess

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

What's the legality of this as it's not a mobile phone.

Stupid though

Falls under driving without due care and attention / dangerous driving I think.

bazz26

There would be no need for water charges or austerity if the Government just introduced a stupidity tax instead.

T.Sparkie

A friend of mine saw the same on the M1 going northbound, she had her passenger record the driver. They brought it into a local garda station only to be told that if her hands were not holding the tablet it wasn't considered a distraction?
The logic behind this amazes me

MuppetCheck

It's like the lady I meet every morning with her cereal bowl.

coylemj

MuppetCheck wrote: »

It's like the lady I meet every morning with her cereal bowl.

while touching up her mascara and doing the Sudoko :rolleyes:

Before tablets, the motorway cops in the UK said that one of the worst cases they came across was a woman who liked doing numeric crosswords so they caught her barrelling down the motorway with a magazine of puzzles propped up against the steering wheel and to help her solve the puzzles she had a calculator strapped to her thigh!!!!

sunnysoutheast

Just to be clear the iPad/tablet didn't seem to be in any sort of holder, the driver was holding it while resting their hands on the wheel.

I've also seen the particularly annoying "headphones in and hold the phone horizontal by the mouth" style of talking used a few times behind the wheel, both in IE and UK.

visual

You can see why self drive cars are being developed to cater for the dumbest drivers who in other areas of their life are probably high achievers.

emeldc

Stheno wrote: »

I've seen people on tablets a few times tbh

Drug driving, tut, tut.

ironclaw

T.Sparkie wrote: »

A friend of mine saw the same on the M1 going northbound, she had her passenger record the driver. They brought it into a local garda station only to be told that if her hands were not holding the tablet it wasn't considered a distraction?
The logic behind this amazes me

If its in a holder then its perfectly legal. As long as no part of your body or clothing is supporting it.

Spook_ie

Does Irish Law not have an equivilent?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/109/made

109. (1) No person shall drive, or cause or permit to be driven, a motor vehicle on a road, if the driver is in such a position as to be able to see, whether directly or by reflection, a television receiving apparatus or other cinematographic apparatus used to display anything other than information—

(a) about the state of the vehicle or its equipment;

(b) about the location of the vehicle and the road on which it is located;

(c) to assist the driver to see the road adjacent to the vehicle; or

(d) to assist the driver to reach his destination.

(2) In this regulation “television receiving apparatus” means any cathode ray tube carried on a vehicle and on which there can be displayed an image derived from a television broadcast, a recording or a camera or computer.

The Dagda

Spook_ie wrote: »

Does Irish Law not have an equivilent?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/109/made

The cathode ray tube element of this statute makes it obsolete.

Voodoomelon

RandomAccess wrote: »

Must be trying to watch all past episodes of 24 before the next season starts tomorrow.

Haha, this is exactly what i'm doing, cramming season 8 in! Admittedly not in control of a vehicle.

HandsomeDan

As a few posters have pointed out he could have been cramming 24, or catching up on Game of Thrones.

djimi

I have seen people reading newspapers while driving along the N7 in the morning. I was stopped at Newlands Cross one morning beside a bloke who was having a shave. Nothing much surprises me any more.

KTRIC

I recently saw a guy on a moped texting and driving !! Yes a MOPED !!

djimi

KTRIC wrote: »

I recently saw a guy on a moped texting and driving !! Yes a MOPED !!

Tried that on a bicycle once a long time ago; never again :pac:

Caliden

Increase the speed limit, going faster = more attention needed.

K.Flyer

The best I saw was where the driver of a 4x4 at the lights in Ballsbridge had the laptop propped and angled in the passenger seat on top of the childs booster seat. She was furiously typing with your one hand while holding the phone with the other.
Lights go green and she takes off, phone gets held to ear by the shoulder, arm still outstretched to the laptop, free hand steering.
Well they do say women are great at the multitasking!:rolleyes:

emeldc

About seven years ago I was on 'home' kidney dialysis. It used to take the best part of an hour to negotiate the M50 at 8am in those days, so I used to dialyse in the car on my way to work. I used to hang the IV bag from the rear view mirror. I got some strange looks with that one alright

MidlandsM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Saw a fella in a car transporter watching Coronation Street on a 12v TV going down the M40 in England one evening.

Impossible. Trucks are 24v.