OK so there are moves afoot to ban drivers smoking in cars because of the danger of it impeding the concentration of the driver. Well that makes no sense when its allowable to have a satnav taking your concentration away from the road onto a small 3" screen Oh and now a lot of Sat Navs come with built in digital TV even more crazy. Maybe sat navs should be made audio only rather than visual.
Ban anyone over 65 would be a good start, or at least make them sit a test every three years.
The old Sunday afternoon fogeys are a danger and a menace to all, especially the really old biddies.
They have no concept of speed or distance at all.
No kids also seems like a jolly good idea, as they can be a huge distraction.
the reasoning behind this....is that in reality.....smoking in cars is already sort of banned. The highway code says other than to change gear, you should both hands on the wheel.
Think..if a child suddendly runs out in front of you. If you have one hand one the wheel, and a fag in the other....are you going to be able to grab the wheel and swerve and brake in time ?? Also what would happen if you accidently dropped you fag..alight in your lap...( yep goodness gracious great balls of fire) ... a sat nav is glance every now and again. I know which I think poses the greatest danger.
I ride a bike and a couple of times I've had some twats cig land on my lap when they've pitched it out of their window. Luckily for me its blown away when I've stood up. Luckily for them I couldn't get hold of it with my gloves on or they would soon find it back on their lap in the car with my boot imprint in their door for good measure.
Not to mention the fact that chucking fag ends on the floor is littering. :mad:
Sorry, Im not really angry....
Ommmmmmmmm
Lets ban maps first. I have seen drivers with a map in their face, a knee under the steering wheel.
Lighting a cigarette requires both hands - and they are near your mouth. Just how do you steer in that situation?
But, yes, there are many things that are a dangerous distraction while driving many a lot worse than holding a cigarette. But some drivers are just dangerous all the time.
People from new learners showing off to their friends, old folks with bugger all vision left and crap reactions, parents trying to control their children in the back of the car, drivers fiddling with radio/satnav/phone buttons or reading maps/books/paperwork.
The fact is drivers as a population all need to choose not to do these things and put all their attention in to driving safely. And the police need to feel it's worth prosecuting those that don't - before an accident happens - and not have their arrests turned into cautions, tiny fines or suspended sentences. Seriously - a suspended sentence ISN'T a sentence at all. It's a 'please don't do it again'.
If driving while distracted is a criminal offence, it should be prosecuted as such without the distracted driver having to kill someone before they are removed from the road.
Driving isn't a right it's a privilege, based on passing a test and continuing to drive safely and within the current laws of the road. That privilege should be withdrawn and have to be hard won back if other people are endangered by someone's abuse of it. I'm not bothered about a slight speeding offence, I'm concerned about the woman behind me a few weeks back with a fag in one hand, mobile phone in the other and inspecting her teeth in the rear-view mirror. She was driving with 2 fingers and a thumb and 0 eyes.
/rant
I wonder if a person was sat in their car parked next to a satellite in orbit (missing the random one) whether the sat nav would be able to get you home?
, though they are self empyting at anything over 5 mph.
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