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Reporting drivers using mobiles.

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  • #32
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    justcallmetex wrote: »
    Thats what the NCT's for....

    On a drive back from Dublin to Leitrim in the dark, I can guarantee I will see a couple of cars driving with one headlamp not working.

    The NCT is for 2 years, plenty can go wrong with a car in that time


  • #33
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    Originally Posted by MelonieHead viewpost.gif
    That's the problem! It's not practical to even try to do anything about drivers using mobiles.

    Maybe the way forward is to install a signal blocker in every car. Sure, that would mean passengers suffer too from not being able to use their phone but it's not really that much of a sacrifice, is it? To be without your phone for a while? As few as twenty years ago people didn't have phones in their pockets and they got along just fine. Maybe the phone would only work if the engine was turned off, in case there is a legitimate emergency.

    Have you had your mobile phone confiscated? or have you been done for this offence and your kinda p|ssed off, this is a stupid idea


  • #34
    MelonieHead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭MelonieHead


    CamperMan wrote: »
    what about the drivers that smoke, or eat food or drink at the wheel, I see more of that going on than people using mobile phones

    Fair enough, I can't argue with that. Personally I've only ever witnessed drivers
    a) on their phone or
    b) picking their nose.

    By the way, I don't drive. I maybe should've said that at the outset. I see all this while walking. Often at traffic lights or junctions where I'm stopped.


  • #35
    justcallmetex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭justcallmetex


    CamperMan wrote: »
    On a drive back from Dublin to Leitrim in the dark, I can guarantee I will see a couple of cars driving with one headlamp not working.

    The NCT is for 2 years, plenty can go wrong with a car in that time

    OK I'm leaving to drive from Sligo to Boyle I'll pass a few too. But fu(k it I'll keep to my side of the road and try and not let it bother me much


  • #36
    MelonieHead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭MelonieHead


    event wrote: »
    there are far too many things wrong with this, so i wont even bother to name them

    Yeah, you wouldn't be able to use your phone for a few minutes. Can't have that now can we?

    F*ck being sensible, there's fun to be had!

    I blame the Government to a degree. Maybe if Irish people didn't have to live under such strict regulations they would have a bit more cop-on when it comes to their fellow man.


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  • #37
    event
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,485 ✭✭✭✭event


    MelonieHead wrote: »
    Yeah, you wouldn't be able to use your phone for a few minutes. Can't have that now can we?

    F*ck being sensible, there's fun to be had!

    I blame the Government to a degree. Maybe if Irish people didn't have to live under such strict regulations they would have a bit more cop-on when it comes to their fellow man.

    oh good lord

    what about firemen, who need to be told where a fire is, or who have a beeper.
    what about doctors, who are on call a lot of the times.
    imagine your elderly parents live at home, and you are the contact for their alarm. what happens if they are broken into?
    your pregnant wife stumbles and falls and tries to ring you, no answer
    you are being chased by a car after they tried to rob you on a lonely road, you need to call the guards

    and on and on

    there are far too many scenarios where mobile phones are essential. Im not saying we should be allowed use them while driving, quite obviously we shouldnt, but a blocker in every car?

    its ludicrous


  • #38
    CamperMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    MelonieHead wrote: »
    Fair enough, I can't argue with that. Personally I've only ever witnessed drivers
    a) on their phone or
    b) picking their nose.

    By the way, I don't drive. I maybe should've said that at the outset. I see all this while walking. Often at traffic lights or junctions where I'm stopped.

    I see it often, at the weekend, I saw a women driving a Micra down the N11 drinking milk, I saw a bloke driving along the M4 driving slowly... he was using his PDA.. NO HANDS ON THE STEERING WHEEL., I saw a young lad eating a sandwich whilst driving, no idea of the contents of that sandwich, but it looked nice. I have seen drivers map reading whilst hurtling along at 80kmph.

    The thing is, even if your eating at the wheel, you drop a crumb on your lap, you naturally look for that crumb, so taking your eye off the wheel, same with people drinking, or smoking.

    Picking your nose whilst driving, I can hardly see that causing an accident unless you went to far and poked your brain out.

    Personally, I see no harm in talking on a mobile phone, it's when you start to write notes down, thats where you could lose control.

    It is pure lunancy to say that talking/using a mobile can cause an accident, your driving along listening to the radio and Westlife come on, what do you do, you take your eyes off the road for a second whilst you tune into something else...

    A whole load of things can be a distraction whilst driving that could cause an accident, what about the summer (whenever we get one) and you see a bird walking along with a tight top on and a short skirt... that is a distraction that could cause an accident.

    Kids screaming in the back of the car.. another distraction, or maybe a pigeon sh!ts on your window, a big dollop of it, another distraction.


  • #39
    mollypop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭mollypop


    What angers me more than people driving while using their phone are the people who think just because their phone rings they have to right to stop their car(or SUV in a lot of cases) where they are regardless of how dangerous it is or how awkward it is for people to get past them. If there's a herd shoulder large enough, then fair enough, otherwise, if it's not life or death - keep moving!!:mad:


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    And they also stop in the most awkward of places, like right in front of a junction that you are coming out of and they completely block your view of the road, or worse when you are turning in they stop right in front of you! :mad:


  • #41
    Capt'n Midnight
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    justcallmetex wrote: »
    Yeah and then we can use it to track people and hook it up to the insurance company so you wont do anything bold.

    Be careful what you wish for.

    Tell me is this the sort of world you would like to live in?
    there is a plan to fit GPS in all new cars in the UK for road tolling

    be dead easy to link this with cell location and call info on mobile phones so they can prove your mobile was with you in the car when you answered that call, you'll pass enough CCTV cameras that they'll prove you had no passenger and if you're registered with eflow they can deduct the fine on the fly too


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  • #42
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    I've only ever seen women driving around with the phone up to their ear tbh, so the simple solution would be...:)


  • #43
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    ...invade Poland.


  • #44
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    ...invade Poland.
    Only if we get to put the camps back up though, right?


  • #45
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Rb wrote:
    Only if we get to camp it up though, right?

    I'll leave that to you.:pac:


  • #46
    coolmoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭coolmoose


    MelonieHead wrote: »
    Maybe the way forward is to install a signal blocker in every car. Sure, that would mean passengers suffer too from not being able to use their phone but it's not really that much of a sacrifice, is it? To be without your phone for a while? As few as twenty years ago people didn't have phones in their pockets and they got along just fine. Maybe the phone would only work if the engine was turned off, in case there is a legitimate emergency.

    The worst idea ever...Twenty years ago was twenty years ago...it doesn't mean that what happened then was better. I regularly use my phone while driving through a handsfree kit, both in work and privately and I need to. It would be a major sacrifice for a lot of people who unfortunately have long commutes or a job that necessitates being on the road a lot.

    There will always be the plank who uses the phone, same way there will always be the plank who drives uninsured, the plank who drives drunk etc.

    Human nature...

    More Garda enforcement is needed, not phone lines or citizen-based solutions whoch are open to abuse, and can be a waste of Garda time.


  • #47
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    I'll leave that to you.:pac:
    A camp invasion of Poland...

    They certainly wouldn't see that coming anyway :pac:


  • #48
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    I won't be able to watch Schindler's List seriously anymore now.


    Officer-"Sir, a man called Schindler has asked to see you."


    Camp Kommandant-"Ooooooo! He couldn't afford me, ducky! Send him into my boudoir...I'm free!!!


  • #49
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Or alternatively, whilst storming villages

    "We're here, we're queer, get over it already"

    *click click click*


  • #50
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    This country is getting worse and worse if people are thinking about reporting others for talking on their cells phones.

    Christ! I have some choice words for any dick that does it!

    People moan about a nanny state, then they think about helping it along.

    Can't wait until someone suggests getting a barcode at birth.


  • #51
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Rb wrote: »
    Or alternatively, whilst storming villages

    "We're here, we're queer, get over it already"

    *click click click*

    "Poles-stop resisting, and be nice!"


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  • #52
    justcallmetex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭justcallmetex


    Rabies wrote: »
    This country is getting worse and worse if people are thinking about reporting others for talking on their cells phones.

    Christ! I have some choice words for any dick that does it!

    People moan about a nanny state, then they think about helping it along.

    Can't wait until someone suggests getting a barcode at birth.

    Agreed


  • #53
    steo87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭steo87


    Saibh wrote: »
    Can't see it working tbh, you could say some one else was using your mobile phone

    Well that didn't work for Joe O'Reilly


  • #54
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Its an outrage really, first it's talking on phone while driving, next thing it will be raping and pilliging on the streets. the sooner new borns are DNA profiled the better, that will help us control society a bit better. Road side check could ID someone with the help of a tiny reader machine. Similar to a bar code scanner maybe.


  • #55
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Ring the guards from your car, and report them.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone who even gets bothered about people talking on phones while driving, never mind going out of their way to report them has too much time on their hands. I think people who suddenly pull in to answer the phone are a much worse scourge.

    If my phone rings I answer it, If I'm driving somewhere I dont have time to pull in for maybe 15mins or longer to talk to someone if I did that I never get anywhere. If like at the moment I dont have a car kit(just got an new phone) I pick up the phone. To be honest I dont find it anymore distracting than messing with the radio, mp3 player, eating, talking to passengers etc


  • #57
    Limerick Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Limerick Bandit


    MelonieHead wrote: »
    .


    Get a life :rolleyes:


  • #58
    justcallmetex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭justcallmetex


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    there is a plan to fit GPS in all new cars in the UK for road tolling

    be dead easy to link this with cell location and call info on mobile phones so they can prove your mobile was with you in the car when you answered that call, you'll pass enough CCTV cameras that they'll prove you had no passenger and if you're registered with eflow they can deduct the fine on the fly too

    I bet there is it is after all the country with more CCTV per sq mile. Freedom's the issue here IMO


  • #59
    Svalbard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Svalbard


    In Castlebar this week, this knob of a woman was using her mobile phone in her car. Don't worry she wasn't driving, she just stopped her car on the road!!!!

    Basically I came up to a T-junction on a quiet enough street in the town and waited behind the car in front to make my turn. Car was behind the while line but ahead was not indicating. The road clears. She still does not progress.
    A few more cars pass, then traffic clears. She doesn't budge.

    "Christ" I think, "has the old dear expired at the wheel?". I pull along side (now on the wrong side of the road) and have a look - she's on the phone!!

    So I end up having to turn out onto the road from the right hand lane.

    I didn't report her, I wouldn't be one for reporting someone i happened to spot - but what this woman did was extremely dangerous.


  • #60
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    This really boils mo fuil
    I've seen alot of busdrivers using their mobiles while driving recently... I hope they were laid off during the latest culls. Muppits.
    Also, texting while driving and holding your mobile with your other hand while on a roundabout... WTF!!!?????


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