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Just heard on the news.... from 1st March the laws regarding using a mobile phone while driving will be improved a bit. Until now it's been kind of nonsensical. It's perfectly ok to press a button on the steering wheel, or external bluetooth device to answer the phone, but not the button on the phone. Well now it will be fine to answer or dial a call on a phone as long as it's in a cradle or connected to a handsfree device.
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Vic has the same silly laws..
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All of WA is stupid. I got a fine for driving through an Amber light the other day. I thought if it was unsafe to stop/having to slam on the anchors i thought you were ok.
Well it was when i did my test in Sydney.
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I got pulled up once in Perth for driving in a "hire car & taxi" lane. The copper swore black and blue my car was a "rental" car and a hire car was a limo until I showed him the "car hire agreement" which described the "hire car". He wandered off shaking his head. |
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Then there are laws on using CB radios.. Or I can touch a GPS device in a car, but cant touch my phone to use GPS.. Someone needs to develop a GPS device with a SIM...
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Why not make it a multi-function GPS/music box/face space terminal/playstation with a sim? You could call it gmbfstpPHONE............ ![]() I suspect the major reason why CB is restricted like mobile phones is that most CB conversations are short and too the point and it is extremely uncommon to hear "well she said and then I said and then she said and oh! isn't that pretty then have you seen the new nail polish at "trendys" I am trying it on now then what colour......" with a background of car horns and muffles abusive language...... |
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My cradle is an elastic band wrapped around my sun visor.
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They are only taking the ambiquity out of the law. The argument has always been about the fact that you can use GPS Devices, CB's etc but couldn't talk on a mobile. It has also been proven that it is more dangerous to talk to a person in a car as you are more likely to look away from the road. So you could ban people talking in cars, the ****** reading a road map while weaving all over throad, even listening to the radio had proven to be the equivelent of 0.01. So lets just ban driving, make it safer.
I liked NSW coppers years ago, pay the "fine" on the side of road, never got demerit points though. Wonder why? |
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Talking to a passenger in the car is not the same for a driver as talking to someone not in the vehicle: http://www.dtei.sa.gov.au/roadsafety...bile_phone_use, please look up the research. The research also tells us the likelihood of an accident increases fourfold when using a mobile, which puts it equivalent to driving at ~0.1bac, not 0.01 bac. Quote:
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you're not supposed to touch the GPS while driving though.......
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It's just that we had this crazy inconsistency with being allowed to answer a call and talk handsfree, but only if the button you push to answer the call is not physically attached to the phone. And in any case I'm ok with the law change - suits me - long highway drives are a good opportunity to catch up with people on the phone. There are plenty of other things that distract drivers and increase the risk of a crash and most of them would be impossible to police. can't just "ban everything". |
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But seriously, GPS devices have a good speaker, add a good mic and a slot where u can easily insert your sim, and give it the functionality to auto answer etc. Cant see why it wouldn't work... Quote:
Anyone know if it's actually illegal to use a GPS when your driving? I'm not sure?
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PROVIDED your GPS is secured with a commercially built device. Ie; the windscreen cup holder thingy supplied as standard with the device. See ARR. Texting et al remains verboten.
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