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Youtube while driving

  • 25-04-2016 9:16am
    #1
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭


    Well lads what's the law with regards having YouTube on your phone while driving? Not for watching just for listening to music. In a cradle.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The law says it's fine*





    * there is no law for this but if you're just listening it's like the radio innit?


  • #3
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Nice one. What if the guards try and say I could be watching the video, even if I'm very sure I'm not?


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Then you'd be in trouble.
    I suggest you download the music onto your phone as mp3 and listen instead.
    Or leave phone on the passenger seat face down.


  • #5
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    I think it's safer to have the phone in a cradle though. I wouldn't want to be unsafe now. And do the guards not have to prove that I was watching the TV?


  • #6
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,640 ✭✭✭cml387


    Any distraction is a danger while driving, and Youtube is a visual distraction

    Why can't you just download the music beforehand?


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  • #7
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,083 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    Nice one. What if the guards try and say I could be watching the video, even if I'm very sure I'm not?

    If you are the only person in the car and you are showing a video, as distinct from Spotify etc, then who do you think is watching it?


  • #8
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    Nice one. What if the guards try and say I could be watching the video, even if I'm very sure I'm not?

    If you are the only person in the car and you are showing a video, as distinct from Spotify etc, then who do you think is watching it?
    No one's watching it. I'm listening to it.


  • #9
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    I think it's safer to have the phone in a cradle though. I wouldn't want to be unsafe now. And do the guards not have to prove that I was watching the TV?
    You having a screen glaring on in a cradle is proof enough to a Garda you were watching it, and I would agree.

    Can you cover the screen somehow? If screen is dark there is no ambiguity.


  • #10
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,808 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    No one's watching it. I'm listening to it.

    If your phone is mounted on the window playing a video this can easily become a distraction so I personally think this is unwise and getting the MP3 for this is the only way forward.


  • #11
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I think there are apps that let you just play the audio only on youtube videos. That way they load faster and don't use up data on videos either


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  • #12
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    I did a 90 minute drive on Friday playing a foreign radio station via tune in radio & bluetooth to the car's speakers. Phone was face down on the passenger seat.

    Worked a treat. Nice music and no distractions.

    Playing youtube in a cradle is asking for trouble.


  • #13
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    i'd say you would be exposing yourself to a dangerous driving charge if you can see the screen from the driver's seat


  • #14
    NeverWaining
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭NeverWaining


    Why not just ring the guards and ask them? There's not much point in telling them that JohnnyOTooleBigBalls from Boards.ie told you it would be grand if they pull you up.


  • #15
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    NeverWaining wrote: »
    Why not just ring the guards and ask them? There's not much point in telling them that JohnnyOTooleBigBalls from Boards.ie told you it would be grand if they pull you up.

    Because guards lie.


  • #16
    Kepler 186f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭Kepler 186f


    The offence is "holding a mobile phone while driving", nowhere in that is there a requirement to prove the phone was being used or not, simply that it's being held while driving. In your case and based of it being in a cradle you won't be committing an offence IMO

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2006/act/23/section/3/enacted/en/html

    However I'm sure there would be another offence if you were seen to be watching videos on your phone while driving


  • #17
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Kepler 186f wrote: »
    The offence is "holding a mobile phone while driving", nowhere in that is there a requirement to prove the phone was being used or not, simply that it's being held while driving. In your case and based of it being in a cradle you won't be committing an offence IMO

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2006/act/23/section/3/enacted/en/html

    However I'm sure there would be another offence if you were seen to be watching videos on your phone while driving

    Holding a phone and using a phone to send or read a sms, mms or e-mail are the only offences in relation to a phone so you can use it for anything else once you don't actually hold the phone or cradle it with any part of your body, however, an offence of driving without due care and consideration can be applied!


  • #18
    Kotek Besar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭Kotek Besar


    Kepler 186f wrote: »
    seen to be watching videos on your phone while driving

    Grand so. I won't be seen. The video will be on but I won't be watching it and An Garda Síochána will have no evidence to the contrary.


  • #19
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Good luck with that.


  • #20
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    You could no doubt be prosecuted for driving without due care and attention if it is the opinion of the Gardaí that what you are doing is affecting your ability to drive safely. It doesn't have to be specified in law about watching a screen.


  • #21
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,099 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Kotek Besar wrote: »
    Grand so. I won't be seen. The video will be on but I won't be watching it and An Garda Síochána will have no evidence to the contrary.

    If the screen is visible the word of a Garda is evidence that you where driving without due care. What's on YouTube that you can't get on the multitude of music streaming apps?


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