Driver watching video on steering wheel

frillyleaf

Thought I’ve seen it all in terms of reckless driving, have seen people watch laptops in passenger seats on motorways, people scrolling through Facebook while driving but this evening tops it!

On the N4, during rush hour traffic, a lady beside me was watching a video on her phone - The phone was mounted or stuck onto her steering wheel somehow. I thought surely someone isn’t that stupid and assumed maybe it was google maps or dashcam screen.

She was beside me stopped in traffic and I could clearly see that it was some type of talk show she was watching. She pulled off at the Lucan exit to what is an extremely built up area with a lot of pedestrian traffic !!!

She also passed through an area there had been an accident, fire brigade, crashed cars and guarda cars! Really gives a new meaning for hands free, ffs

JustAThought

Boils my blood. You see it more and more - I’ve seen taxi drivers with centre mounted tablets on their steering wheels - should have their cars impounded and their licenses revoked and gave to work cleaning bedpans in the rehab hospital. Crunching over someone in a car because you are watching TV while driving - no mercy.

frillyleaf

JustAThought wrote: »

Boils my blood. You see it more and more - I’ve seen taxi drivers with centre mounted tablets on their steering wheels - should have their cars impounded and their licenses revoked and gave to work cleaning bedpns in the rehab hospital. Crunching over someone in a car because you are watching TV while driving - no mercy.

I know. Absolutely reckless behaviour. I genuinely feel an automatic ban for things like that is badly needed. Not just that but texting etc too. She’d likely go through a pedestrian crossing and not even see it. I called her into the guards so hopefully they followed it up. Complete stupidity. I can’t believe taxi drivers would do that!! Shocking!

Airyfairy12

This scares me so much, im really distrustful of other drivers as theyre so inconsiderate and downright stupid. You should have followed her and took down her registration. I would have reported her.

CrankyHaus

It's the new thing. Heard of a guy pulled by the Gardai for it last year. Saw it myself a couple of weeks ago. Been noticing people swerving, slowing and accelerating erratically on the motorway obviously on their screens for years.

Expect to see more of it as people get more and more hooked to their phones. When self driving cares get offered to them they'll snap them up for the chance to tune out behind the wheel.

frillyleaf

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

This scares me so much, im really distrustful of other drivers as theyre so inconsiderate and downright stupid. You should have followed her and took down her registration. I would have reported her.

I did. I called her in twice to the gaurds and gave the exact location she was at, they said they would dispatch a car. To think people are teaching their kids to cross roads safely and gob****es like her are out driving and watching tv is more important than avoiding injuring or killing someone.

freshpopcorn

Practice Makes Perfect!

frillyleaf

CrankyHaus wrote: »

It's the new thing. Heard of a guy pulled by the Gardai for it last year. Saw it myself a couple of weeks ago. Been noticing people swerving, slowing and accelerating erratically on the motorway obviously on their screens for years.

Expect to see more of it as people get more and more hooked to their phones. When self driving cares get offered to them they'll snap them up for the chance to tune out behind the wheel.

Yep, I called in a drunk driver swerving all over the m50 last year and it was a lady watching a laptop. Last year another dickhead to as on social media scrolling on a screen mounted phone with a newborn child seat in the back of his car. He was sneering at me when I beeped and asked him wtf he was doing. This time a dual carriageway during rush hour traffic

Akrasia

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Practice Makes Perfect!

I was in a taxi last year and the taxi driver started watching a football match on his phone while driving....

frillyleaf

Akrasia wrote: »

I was in a taxi last year and the taxi driver started watching a football match on his phone while driving....

Jesus!!!

RobAMerc

yesterday I passed a car driving slowly in the middle lane of the m50. I realised why he was driving slowly - he needed the peace to read his book !

I didnt know what to do really, traffic was moving to fast for me to get a reg no in rear mirror and I didnt want to try take a photo myself
but I couldnt believe it !

branie2

Completely stupid as well!

Pinch Flat

This is quite common, at least in Dublin traffic. Saw it for the first time a few years ago when Ireland played Denmark- the game where we got thumped 5 to 1. Pulled up along side a fella in a car and started watching the game over his shoulder- he had it live streaming on a tablet - before he copped me.

Seen other people with phones mounted in landscape on or above the dash - all sorts of stuff streaming.The

The stupidity of some people knows no bounds.

Sardonicat

Was in my friends car on the M50 behind a very erratic driver. My friend overtook him and as we passed to my horror I saw he had a notebook up on the steering wheel and he was busy writing in.

endacl

The sentence for this level of stupidity should include being made to push the start button on the car crusher....

no.8

Get a dashcam folks...front and rear if possible. Might help protect you and others.
Licenses should be revoked with 0 mercy if caught. A person who does this is either dangerously reckless and selfish or completely clueless so shouldn't be allowed to drive a 2 tonne+ vehicle anyway.

Graces7

And folk think I am deprived by having no car any more...:eek:

Holy Duck

Airyfairy12 wrote:

This scares me so much, im really distrustful of other drivers as theyre so inconsiderate and downright stupid. You should have followed her and took down her registration. I would have reported her.

Who does one report it to, 999?

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

JustAThought wrote: »

Boils my blood. You see it more and more - I’ve seen taxi drivers with centre mounted tablets on their steering wheels - should have their cars impounded and their licenses revoked and gave to work cleaning bedpans in the rehab hospital. Crunching over someone in a car because you are watching TV while driving - no mercy.

They're probably coked up to their eyeballs too...

If I had a car mounted rocket launcher, I'd be tempted to just take them out there and then... save clogging up the court system and just leave a smouldering hole in the ground as a reminder to any other gobsh!tes who might be thinking about doing something dumb in their car! :P

It comes down to selfishness at the end of the day... most of these people couldn't give a damn if they are jeopardizing other people's safety. They do as they please, and only very stiff punishments will stop them from continuing this behaviour in the future!

Car99

Graces7 wrote: »

And folk think I am deprived by having no car any more...:eek:

How do you get around on a small offshore island with no car?

ED E

I've seen people driving along with a full size windows laptop on their lap before. Phones are constant. HGV drivers on phones common.


Some of the UK forces have some really good techniques to deal with it. And they get 6pts and a £200 fine over there. Gards do squat. Shane Ross sits there eating his own snot.

Irish_peppa

I used to LISTEN to youtube videos while driving on longer trips I dont actually watch the video (That would be obviously NUTS) at all but i did mount the phone on the phone holder on the centre dash. Reason I mounted it there as anywhere else the phone would slide away. For any journey I would normally select an appropriate documentary or self education video for example driving to Galway I would select maybe an hour long lecture. Im sure other cars saw the moving pictures on the screen and may have thought I was actively watching the video but i wasnt at all.
I use the same phone holder spot I use for my google navigation when needed on same phone. So it might have looked like i was watching it to other drivers but I certainly wasnt. In any event i discovered Audible recently so I no longer use youtube to listen to Audio documentaries etc. Although they may see the glow of the Audible Menu but the picture doesnt change.:o Hope thats ok:eek:

punisher5112

Holy Duck wrote: »

Who does one report it to, 999?

Traffic watch

amadangomor

Have seen the same fella twice - reading a book on the M4. The mind boggles!

Hector Savage

frillyleaf wrote: »

I did. I called her in twice to the gaurds and gave the exact location she was at, they said they would dispatch a car. To think people are teaching their kids to cross roads safely and gob****es like her are out driving and watching tv is more important than avoiding injuring or killing someone.

Really gets on my nerves too, I remember going into college about 15 years ago - more and there was a woman texting as she drove in to park, would have run me over had I not jumped out of the way, this would have been SMS days too , so a difficult job, I really regret not following her (as she was about to park) and ripping into her ....


cunt a rotten fucking cunt .... to think someone like that will needlessly kill someone ...

Hector Savage

Irish_peppa wrote: »

I used to LISTEN to youtube videos while driving on longer trips I dont actually watch the video (That would be obviously NUTS) at all but i did mount the phone on the phone holder on the centre dash. Reason I mounted it there as anywhere else the phone would slide away. For any journey I would normally select an appropriate documentary or self education video for example driving to Galway I would select maybe an hour long lecture. Im sure other cars saw the moving pictures on the screen and may have thought I was actively watching the video but i wasnt at all.
I use the same phone holder spot I use for my google navigation when needed on same phone. So it might have looked like i was watching it to other drivers but I certainly wasnt. In any event i discovered Audible recently so I no longer use youtube to listen to Audio documentaries etc. Although they may see the glow of the Audible Menu but the picture doesnt change.:o Hope thats ok:eek:

Not good enough it's still a distraction, I think new cars anyway are nuts with the prominent screen, I mean have you seen Teslas?
I mean WHAT THE F*CK WERE THEY THINKING?


Turn the screen away and listen to the audio sure, but having it point toward you is irresponsible...

punisher5112

amadangomor wrote: »

Have seen the same fella twice - reading a book on the M4. The mind boggles!

Report it.

Even an email the Garda traffic or @info....

I've done it and the driving style changed not long after.

Once behind a wheel, one should be fixed on the task at hand.

I've seen taxis going through the city centre watching soccer matches with the phone up on the cradle, women playing games and many looking up social media, doing makeup etc etc.

Guys tend to just have the phone to the ear but of course see many texting etc.

topper75

endacl wrote: »

The sentence for this level of stupidity should include being made to push the start button on the car crusher....

Is it too late for you to register to run in my constituency:D?

Irish_peppa

Hector Savage wrote: »

Not good enough it's still a distraction, I think new cars anyway are nuts with the prominent screen, I mean have you seen Teslas?
I mean WHAT THE F*CK WERE THEY THINKING?


Turn the screen away and listen to the audio sure, but having it point toward you is irresponsible...

When I use the same phone in the exact same position for sat nav use would you consider that not good enough, a distraction, and irresponsible also? I would be actively regularly checking that.

amadangomor

punisher5112 wrote: »

Report it.

Even an email the Garda traffic or @info....

I've done it and the driving style changed not long after.

Once behind a wheel, one should be fixed on the task at hand.

I've seen taxis going through the city centre watching soccer matches with the phone up on the cradle, women playing games and many looking up social media, doing makeup etc etc.

Guys tend to just have the phone to the ear but of course see many texting etc.

I did, unfortunately didn't get the reg. The Guards didn't seem to interested in trying to go and get him.

Both times I looked over as I was curious to why someone was doing about 70/80 kph on the motorway. My instinct was to get the hell away from him straight away so never thought of getting his reg.

Wonder if it's the same lunatic reading on the M50? He was driving a small SUV, looked to be in his 60's. This was probably around 3 years ago. I posted here at the time and someone else had seen him on the M4

granturismo

Irish_peppa wrote: »

When I use the same phone in the exact same position for sat nav use would you consider that not good enough, a distraction, and irresponsible also? I would be actively regularly checking that.

If you need to actively check your phone for directions, try activating the voice function on your app, it's very helpful.