The law around windscreen obstructions

Raymond Lin said:
Sounds like a trip in your car is enough to get whiplash. You need to brake more gently, even F1 cars can stop smoothly there is no reasn yours can't, don't blame the brakes, it's your right foot that's doing the braking.

That and get better suction arm for the satnav.
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It's gurdas, who knows if his car even has brakes at all?
 
gurdas said:
I find it difficult to put the Satnav anywhere, because my brakes are quite powerful it often comes off the screen and either hits a passenger or goes into the back seat.
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You're doing it wrong if applying the brakes makes the satnav fly from the windscreen in the front of the car to the seats in the back of the car!

I put mine down in the bottom corner, girlfriend puts it in the centre when she drives my car. Same car, different drivers. Neither of us have horrendous blind spots with our respective locations, nor do we crash everytime we drive with the satnav. Maybe it's just personal preference?! I can't say there's ever anything I miss seeing down in that corner, in fact about all I'd miss would be a street luge that just happened to be sat in my blind spot whilst moving!
 
Having it bottom centre or bottom right isn't the issue, its those people who have it at eye level in the middle of the screen. The woman I followed had her phone in a massive arm right in the centre of the screen, and her way nav to the left of it. I'm pretty sure from her position she couldn't see anything out the passenger side of the screen.
 
As for the OP, she's going to be doing 25mph around town, tops. The satnav could be pretty much glued directly central in her line of sight. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference to her observations/driving style. I wouldn't worry about it.

Not worth a thread on the Internets :p
 
My mom had a vinyl sunscreen sticker fitted to her suzuki wagon r but it failed the mot because it was slightly in the swept area of the wiper blades. Best about it is, the vinyl sticker only came down as far as the sun visors.
 
NickXX said:
As for the OP, she's going to be doing 25mph around town, tops. The satnav could be pretty much glued directly central in her line of sight. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference to her observations/driving style. I wouldn't worry about it.

Not worth a thread on the Internets :p
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I followed her up the slip road off the M27...
 
Failure to have proper control of vehicle or full view of the road and traffic ahead, or using a hand-held mobile phone while driving.
Penalty:£1,000 (£2,500 for PCV or goods vehicle)
Disqualification: Discretionary
Penalty Points: 3
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From http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069870
From what I have seen anything in the area swept by the wipers can be considered under this, but I havent seen anything set out on paper to support this.
 
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Spotted this morning. Some of the locals like to use their dash as a shrine to their chosen god. Bonus religious relic and magic tree hanging from rear view mirror too.
 
shoes said:
Last MOT i had, the cradle for my phone was stuck to the windscreen. I had an advisory stating 'had to clear obstacles from windscreen' or something to that effect, and the cradle was left in the passenger seat.

Not a fail, but they said they had to note it down on the sheet nontheless.
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I did the same once and the tester said it would have been a failure straight away but there was no point wasting both of our of time and my money retesting the car for something that is very easily resolved. They are allowed at their discretion (if they wish to keep your custom) to remove it before starting the test.
 
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