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I was once overtaking a lorry on the motorway and one of the tyres blew out in the trailer as I was passing it. It frightened the bejesus out of me.
using your phone while driving ( shocking content )
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hmmh germans have a good plan on autobahn
If you have a breakdown or accident, you must move to the shoulder if possible and place a warning triangle 200 meters behind the scene.
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Rule 274: put a warning triangle on the road at least 45 metres (147 ft) behind your broken-down vehicle on the same side of the road, or use other permitted warning devices if you have them. Always take great care when placing or retrieving them, but never use them on motorways.
If you have a breakdown or accident, you must move to the shoulder if possible and place a warning triangle 200 meters behind the scene.
UK
Rule 274: put a warning triangle on the road at least 45 metres (147 ft) behind your broken-down vehicle on the same side of the road, or use other permitted warning devices if you have them. Always take great care when placing or retrieving them, but never use them on motorways.
Don't think the company we use at work will do stuff like that at the side of the road any more on fast roads without either police or highways in attendance or a 2nd recovery vehicle providing a shield. I still see plenty who do however.
Which studies have shown is no less dangerous than having a conversation while holding the phone.
But since its legal people seem to overlook this inconvenient fact when moralising about other people holding their phone while having a conversation
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Thanks. Your moral preaching has convinced me to bin the hands free kit and go back to holding a phone.
Well, if you were actually bothered about road safety and not just virtue signalling, you'd bin the hands free kit and go back to not answering the phone at all when driving
Yes you are completely right. I am not bothered at all about road safety. Thank god for people like you to help me.Well, if you were actually bothered about road safety and not just virtue signalling, you'd bin the hands free kit and go back to not answering the phone at all when driving
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Seen two drivers doing hippy crack whilst driving today. Even one was filling a balloon from a cream charger whilst driving so no hands on the steering wheel
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I have never answered my phone or respond to a text whilst driving. If people don’t understand why I didn’t respond immediately because I was driving, they need their heads’ sorting
He is right though, the difference is negligible. There was a good part in the Monkey Paradox about it, it's also been wrote about again a few times. But the talking part is far worse than the simple motor mechanic to hold your phone.
Not that I care either way, it's just interesting.
I think they just implemented the handsfree rule because they know it's not practical to completely ban any phone related activity when driving, and that talking on the phone is no more dangerous than many other totally legal things you can do in a car. The main point of the law is to stop people from doing what that truck driver was doing, i.e. taking your eyes off the road to look at a phone screen which is clearly a far bigger risk to others than having a phone to your ear. Insisting on handsfree makes it far easier for them to enforce and stops people claiming they just picked up the phone to accept the call etc.
Thought it was a gorilla - bbc have a good podcast from last week about human inability to dedicate brain resources to two tasks,
epitomized by the plane crash where they failed to see they had run out of fuel whilst trying to fix an undrcarrage problem, but in motorist context people on hands free just looking at the road, without seeing potential hazards, they also had evidence that concentration is not immediately restored when call ends
Probably waiting for a prosecution where someone is prosecuted for being distracted irrespective to the fact they were on hands-free, at which point (like with cigarettes) would the car manufacturers be able to abdicate responsibility.
epitomized by the plane crash where they failed to see they had run out of fuel whilst trying to fix an undrcarrage problem, but in motorist context people on hands free just looking at the road, without seeing potential hazards, they also had evidence that concentration is not immediately restored when call ends
Probably waiting for a prosecution where someone is prosecuted for being distracted irrespective to the fact they were on hands-free, at which point (like with cigarettes) would the car manufacturers be able to abdicate responsibility.
make a warning triangle /roadcone you can drive like an RC car
surprised no one did it alreadyok so that paradox is : Whenever the chimp perceives a threat he will decide to fight, flight or freeze. The chimp can hijack you and is responsible for often irrational or destructive ...
the gorilla tests are experiments where people have demonstrated how humans can loose attention ie hands free
the gorilla tests are experiments where people have demonstrated how humans can loose attention ie hands free