hairyben wrote:
nothing about smokers yet? I guess they're still working on showing how a group of people, repeated shown as statistically less-likely-to-crash, can be shown to be a menace. but it'll come.
Well.. I cannot condone smoking
as I am er.. a medic.. who .. err.. tells his patients not to .. errr. umm .. smoke
I do not understand the need to use a mobile phone when
or
(still think Wildy's "Handy" is much more appropriated somehow.. them foreign folk
)
I still think phone learn far more if stopped and spoken to by a proper policeman about safe driving skills.. with a penalty for "minor infringes" given as the very last resort. I also think that the phone and eating laws should apply to the cycling idiots who do wobble a lot when on theoir phones or swigging from water bottles. ( use a light weight walker/s bidon which straps to my body. It works a treat. It's downside perhaps is that it slows me speed when "competing" against the Swiss lads in our charity runs. It's why I have not been on the forum quite as often just recently..
and seeming to post up in clusters.
But that apart.. like the driver who fiddles and texts when driving or gets "involved" in the call... the cyclist in this mode behaves in exactly the same way..in lost concentration and ability to handle the bicycle
Short hands free re-assurances when "stuck in a jam" are one thing .. but I like to have my tiffs with my wife and colleagues in person.. looking straight into their eyeballs
Perhaps that's my personality.
Do I agree with cams to do the job? No.. I still see a proper policeman as the only person who can deliver the correct message.. politely educating and perhaps not having much option but to give a verbal NOIP.. but the difference in this personal touch is that the person actually UNDERSTANDS why they received the rap on the knuckles or assault on wallets, purses, plastic card accounts and bank accounts..
- whatever ..
Eating? I do have an open tin of unwrapped mints and chocs ...to hand in the central tray behind the handbrake in my car. If I want a proper picnic lunch.. .. I like to find a nice, safe and fairly scenic, place to stop. Eating when driving .. it's like having lunch at the work desk. It's no break and does not do much for the digestive juices. The French and Italians do have a valid point over the needs of "l'estomac".
But the cams? Why a camera? Why not just employ a policeman on routine patrols. I would bet he'd find far more idiots.. and a lot more dangerous in potential too.
Better value for money too. The cash spent on all this
cam c:censored: .. would pay for many more routine patrol and beat bobbies.
The public are not stupid. nor so easily conned either.
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