Watching video while driving - a growing problem?

Kermit.de.frog

I notice on Twitter in recent months there seems to be more and more reports of drivers watching video on their phones placed on the dash while driving! A set up like this?


https://twitter.com/Broadsword999/status/1187572229959311360


https://twitter.com/karldeeter/status/1189859466382135296


What is to be done with these specimens? I'm not sure the law is up to speed with this death wish.

In the example in the UK driver only got £50 fine :eek:

D3V!L

I've come across a lot of this recently in Dublin

Salary Negotiator

See it every day on the M50, a few members of the Traffic Corps on motorbikes would go a long way to stamping it out.

But that’s too small fry for our boys in blue.

biko

Sounds like http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1961/act/24/section/52/enacted/en/html

A person shall not drive a vehicle in a public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the place.

Pinch Flat

I was cycling home along the quays when Ireland were playing Denmark in the Aviva a while back. Pulled up beside a fella with the game on live in the car - a dash mounted screen, iPad mini size. Was always going to be the next natural profession in stupidity behind the wheel.

Was a passenger coming back from Galway to Dublin a while back - it was dark. I’d say one in three cars had a glow of a phone on the drivers face. Presumably texting/Snapchat/ FaceTime

tigerboon

When you see cars crawling along the motorway with buses and trucks having to pass them, and a huge gap to the next car, chances are they're watching/looking at the phone. Idiots.

Keith186

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I notice on Twitter in recent months there seems to be more and more reports of drivers watching video on their phones placed on the dash while driving! A set up like this?


https://twitter.com/Broadsword999/status/1187572229959311360


https://twitter.com/karldeeter/status/1189859466382135296


What is to be done with these specimens? I'm not sure the law is up to speed with this death wish.

In the example in the UK driver only got £50 fine :eek:

Just because there's a video playing it doesn't mean they are watching it the whole time, could be just listening to music from YouTube or listening to a match and glancing the odd time.
It sounds worse than it is, it's the equivalent of looking at the radio for a couple seconds to press a button if the person is just glancing at it occasionally when the driving environment/conditions allow.
Obviously there will be cases where drivers are watching the video instead of the road when they should be, I'm not defending those people. It's hard for the Gardai to differentiate in fairness.

jack presley

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

In the example in the UK driver only got £50 fine :eek:

Story about this on Sky News today. Looks like they're increasing the punishment over in the UK

https://news.sky.com/story/drivers-face-prosecution-for-touching-mobile-phone-behind-the-wheel-11850866

Salary Negotiator

Keith186 wrote: »

Just because there's a video playing it doesn't mean they are watching it the whole time, could be just listening to music from YouTube or listening to a match and glancing the odd time.
It sounds worse than it is, it's the equivalent of looking at the radio for a couple seconds to press a button if the person is just glancing at it occasionally when the driving environment/conditions allow.
Obviously there will be cases where drivers are watching the video instead of the road when they should be, I'm not defending those people. It's hard for the Gardai to differentiate in fairness.

Have you ever sat in a pub with a TV on in the background? Almost impossible not to stare at it blankly from time to time, doesn’t matter what’s on.

It’s ridiculously dangerous to have any sort of visual media playing while driving and incredibly stupid to equate it with glancing at a radio dial.

LoughNeagh2017

The only past time I engage in when driving is miming metal screams, from the outside looking in it looks like I have road rage. I hate driving, it caused my misanthropy to increase, you can't even drive at the speed limit without people driving up close behind you trying to overtake you. Driving shows humans at their worst vile selves.

LoughNeagh2017

tigerboon wrote: »

When you see cars crawling along the motorway with buses and trucks having to pass them, and a huge gap to the next car, chances are they're watching/looking at the phone. Idiots.

Recently I was letting a couple of cars out in front of me at a park and ride during a traffic jam, I was trying to be good for once but the people behind me were not happy, that was the last time I tried to be a good human, humans deserve nothing but contempt.

opfleet

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

See it every day on the M50, a few members of the Traffic Corps on motorbikes would go a long way to stamping it out.

But that’s too small fry for our boys in blue.

Anytime they do, people will say "catch the real criminals" or picking on "easy targets"..The majority of people are of the opinion that too much time is spent on traffic enforcement or "revenue collection" as some numpties would say which is not the case.

Sciprio

It's growing alright but i see more of those who go around with earphones in.

Kermit.de.frog

Sciprio wrote: »

It's growing alright but i see more of those who go around with earphones in.

The earphones thing are an even bigger problem among cyclists than drivers in my experience.

freshpopcorn

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Keith186

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

Have you ever sat in a pub with a TV on in the background? Almost impossible not to stare at it blankly from time to time, doesn’t matter what’s on.

It’s ridiculously dangerous to have any sort of visual media playing while driving and incredibly stupid to equate it with glancing at a radio dial.

I agree, if the driver is watching it but if they are not, then they could be focused on the road. I've no doubt there will be accidents because of it, but in the same breath, not every driver who is on the phone or has had a couple of pints is going to automatically crash their car.

IJS84

yep, I see this at least 3 out 5 days commuting in Cork, along the N25 to the city, back home N40 through the tunnel. Commute on a motorbike and the **** I see everyday is ****ing scary, netflix, youtube, doing make up and kids in the cars with them.....if the cops ran the same route I do at rush hour fines would be through the roof and a lot more people off the roads with multiple offences id imagine.

NIMAN

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Toyotafanboi

Yeah, you do see it a lot in the mornings on the M11/ M50 and not even in the heavy traffic spots, you'd often be breezing past Wicklow/ Kilcoole/ Newtownmountkennedy at 6.20 or 6.30am and people are quite clearly watching their phones perched in the instrument cluster or on the steering wheel while doing 100+km/h and seem to think there's no issue with it. It's a joke.

mickdw

I've my phone wirelessly mirrored to my in dash screen. Great for when I'm parked up waiting in the car.
Watching it on the move never even occurred to me.

Atlantic Dawn

Traffic Corps are in the 1900's as regards tech, they would only be up to a level of someone receiving a fax in a car as being an offence.

Markcheese

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Traffic Corps are in the 1900's as regards tech, they would only be up to a level of someone receiving a fax in a car as being an offence.

Don't think so... They do pull people for looking at the screen in traffic, just not many..

gzoladz

While watching a video while driving is completely unacceptable, I find that using a mobile phone is even more dangerous as the driver would be actively interacting with the device.