Using Mobile whilst driving

I also think that the police should have the powers to seize the mobile device.... May make some think twice.....

I would just make it law that anyone found using their moble whilst driving gets their vehicle crushed. Try explainig to your boss why his articluated wagon has just been seized!

just crush the driver 

I also think that the police should have the powers to seize the mobile device.... May make some think twice.....

I would just make it law that anyone found using their moble whilst driving gets their vehicle crushed. Try explainig to your boss why his articluated wagon has just been seized!

Write your comments here...problem is more often than not its the boss calling the driver 

My car has Bluetooth connectivity which is good for receiving calls since the button to allow the call is on the steering wheel. However to make a call you have to scroll through all the contacts in your phone, that's something that is very distracting IMHO and therefore which I'll never do.

Mine is similar with the button on the steering wheel but it's voice activated. I only need push the button and say clearly "call home" and it does exactly that. 

Same in my car. I use it quite often.

...but not as easy to call all the other entries in ypur address book....they would all have to have tags..or distracting scrolling.....

even my very, very old company nokia could do this years ago but i didnt use it.....call home (and one press receiving) is more than enough....IMHO.

I cannot see the reason for using a mobile whist driving for which you only get 3 points on your licence going up to 6.

By the sentence this driver recieved for dangerous driving says it all and instead of reporting for using a mobile each person using whilst driving should be prosecuted for dangerous driving and dealt with accordingly. It would soon cut out the mass use as it is now.

It was a terrible tragedy, caused by avoidable lack of concentration, the film from inside the cab was appalling. It's a solemn reminder to everyone. I see so many drivers doing the same, it only takes seconds to ruin people's lives.

Seeing the video as a split screen image was truly horrifying - forward facing camera thankfully froze before impact and the cab cam showed what was going on. I hope the 10 years means that but suspect it will be half or even less with 'good behaviour'. 

My car has Bluetooth connectivity which is good for receiving calls since the button to allow the call is on the steering wheel. However to make a call you have to scroll through all the contacts in your phone, that's something that is very distracting IMHO and therefore which I'll never do.

Mine is similar with the button on the steering wheel but it's voice activated. I only need push the button and say clearly "call home" and it does exactly that. 

Same in my car. I use it quite often.

...but not as easy to call all the other entries in ypur address book....they would all have to have tags..or distracting scrolling.....

even my very, very old company nokia could do this years ago but i didnt use it.....call home (and one press receiving) is more than enough....IMHO.

BB, I can tell it to call anyone on the contact list in my phone. The voice activation works for them all. I could even tell it to "Call BB" if I had your number.

The use of 'home' was an example as I clarified on edit.

thanks, ill have to check on my iphone..

certainly, in the old days, if it wanted to be able to 'call Tinwheeler' i would have had to have added a voice tag to the Tw entry so ot knew what number to associate with each 'spoken' command.

as you say, voice recognition might be able to do this as long as the entry name matched the command....

so... 'call Tinny' might not work if youre entry was filed under Tinwheeler?....etc.....

ill have a play, although i generally only (rarely) receive calls whilst driving.

Mine is a new car with the latest system and my phone is an iPhone. I'm not bragging but those factors could have a bearing on the way my system works. 

You do need to remember the name you've stored somebody as per your example, BB, but it wouldn't surprise me if the system suggests alternatives. 

The other day, as an experiment, I told it to 'text' and it replied that messaging is not yet available. That implies it's on the way one day. 

Personally, whether you hold the phone to your ear or hands-free the point is you are distracted from driving and talking and thinking of other things when you should be driving.  All cars should now be fitted with a device - that no one can reach in the engine - that as soon as you turn on the engine (whether petrol or electric) your mobile is blocked and cannot send or receive calls, you must turn off your engine to make them.  If this happened, hundreds of live would be saved.  There are various videos on this link (may have to copy to address box), hopefully the correct one will show up, which is called the "Two Second Rule"

https://www.facebook.com/DrivingSpain/videos/500413180146039/

All the above re making or receiving calls in the car is by the way ...... the bloke gaoled was scrolling through music files ..... they just happened to be on his phone rather than on a mp3 player/etc. And what's the difference between a conversation via a phone & a 2 way radio?