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Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers (UK)
On 13/04/2019 03:59, Rod Speed wrote:
"A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. -- Bod --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On 13/04/2019 11:06, Rod Speed wrote:
"Bod" wrote in message ... On 13/04/2019 03:02, A K wrote: On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Glad you can see the sense in it. There is no sense in it when it can't even work out if the driver is using it or a passenger is. And its a bare faced pig ignorant lie that using a phone is as bad as being a drunk driver. The evidence defeats your claim. -- Bod --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On 4/12/19 10:59 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Hang up and drive! https://katv.com/news/local/arkansas...-while-driving |
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On 4/13/2019 6:10 AM, Bod wrote:
Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. One of the problems is that people like Rod Speed believe what they want to and not what has been proven true. There is a huge difference between talking on the phone and talking to a passenger. The phone takes a bigger chunk of your attention and you are less likely to stop talking if a traffic situation needs your immediate attention. It always the other guy, I know what I'm doing! |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:07:33 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:39:52 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message news On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:48:51 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message om... On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 04:45:27 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message news:5ug1be9cc5u6ipee173ff2b69a0dv6kn2i@4ax .com... On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:21:54 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: "gregz" wrote in message ... Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. Have to remember phones talk to base by itself for location regardless. But easy to distinguish between that and voice calls and texts. How about the data dumps the car does? Indeed, the entire thing is completely hare brained. And what the satnav is doing as well. These days that link is being used for a lot more than just phone calls and texts. I was reading an article in one of my electronic trade rags that says we ain't seen nothing yet. The protocol is in place for virtually constant communication between cars and all sorts of things, feeding real time information to and from your on board computers. Particularly with the satnav. Personally I think I want to find that antenna and cut the wire or wrap the antenna in aluminum foil. I don't, I find the satnav alone is very convenient. I was doing a run into our state capital by car with me supposed to catch the train back to my home town and it was interesting to watch google maps using the traffic data to update the arrival time. It was spot on. The stupid thing on the mate's Nokia was way out and never got updated on the arrival time. I don't even carry a phone. Mad. We now coordinate the garage/yard sale run on the phone, normally talking to each other for the full couple of house between waiting for the first one to open and the last one to finish and being able to tell each other about extra ones that didn't bother to advertise in the local paper for $40 and didn't use facebook to advertise it, just put a sign on the street power or light pole etc. I have my own local facebook group where I post all the ads from the local paper and the local buy sell swap groups and where anyone can post their garage/yard sale ad and update that as they open etc. The paper discourages advertisers from including the street number so they don't get people showing up the day before while they are setting up etc. So I add the street number when that becomes obvious when it opens. Google maps on the phone does a hell of a lot better than the dedicated satnavs in the car etc do too, particularly with the traffic information and where a serious car crash has produced a traffic jam etc. I don't use nav in the car either. I know where I am going and if I don't I will look at a map. Mad, satnav leaves maps for dead. Kids there used to be these things called maps ;-) I used them before satnavs showed up and satnavs leave them for dead. I lived "connected" during pretty much all of my working life (24/7) and now I like being off the grid. Mad when out driving. I don't want to be constantly available Don't have to be and still use it for what it does best. and I certainly don't need some woman in my car telling me where to go. Stupid to use a physical map now. Maybe you just can't look at a map and remember where you are going. Corse I can and did before satnavs showed up. Around here I could draw a map. Irrelevant to whats most useful in places you arent familiar with. I worked 15 years on the road around here and I know where things are. Pity about where you havent done that. I think we have become dumber as a society because we depend too much on technology. You're wrong about that too. If you need a nav to find a place where you have the address, either your addressing scheme is ****ed up or you don't understand it. Or its much more convenient to say 'hey siri go to 24 Jones Ave' and have it tell you every turn and route you around traffic congestion than to fart around with a paper map, luddite dinosaur. The reality is, I don't go that many places that I don't know how to get to. Even just 1 or two a year is worth doing the right way when its free, luddite dinosaur. Nothing is free. |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:04:06 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:26:43 -0600, rbowman wrote: On 04/12/2019 11:03 AM, wrote: How about the data dumps the car does? These days that link is being used for a lot more than just phone calls and texts. I was reading an article in one of my electronic trade rags that says we ain't seen nothing yet. The protocol is in place for virtually constant communication between cars and all sorts of things, feeding real time information to and from your on board computers. I swear my next new (to me) car will be a 1960 Valiant. I understand the 225 ci slant six pretty well. My 97 Honda has the perfect amount of electronics. The ABS controller, fuel injection and an MP3 player. Only for a luddite dinosaur. Its useful to have a decent OBD2 system that tells you when a sensor has failed so you can just replace it with a high certainty of being the fault etc. And handy for all but luddite dinosaurs to have Apple Carplay and Google Auto so that its easy to have your phone use the main dash screen and handy to have a decent dash screen so you can see the various stuff that you want to have it show too. Handy to have full 360 cameras for parking instead of farting around with external mirrors for that and to make it much easier to see see where the corners are when parking, particularly with the modern small cars which slope the front down so fast that even a tall person cant see any of it when sitting in the drivers seat. And to have those cameras act as dashcams all around when the car is moving and as surveillance cameras when its parked too. And to be a reversing camera so you don't run over little kids when backing etc. The VW Golf even has a fancy system which helps with reversing a small trailer when none of the trailer is visible out the back window, particularly when its empty. And a decent cruise controls which keeps a specified distance from the car in front and which allows you to specify that distance by speed so that it still works when inching forward in a traffic jam and when tearing along the freeway etc. Also handy to keep track of fuel consumption and the fuel level so you can see at a glance how far you can go till you need to fill again and ideally show you the petrol stations in front of you that you can make it to and the price they are selling petrol for too. Some of us just know how to drive. |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:10:38 +0100, Bod wrote:
On 13/04/2019 03:59, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. I really think this phone thing started back when "car phones" were rare and expensive and people without phones were ****ed about it. BTW I do agree about texting. The mere fact that you are typing on that screen or banging text out on a numeric keypad means you are not driving. I would also question using your phone for a NAV,. The NAV in my wife's Lincoln will not take any kind of input while the car is moving even if the passenger is doing it. |
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Lonely Psychopathic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 20:06:31 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: that's a great idea. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Glad you can see the sense in it. There is no sense in it when it Obviously people a lot smarter than you see it differently, senile know-it-all. -- Bill Wright addressing senile Ozzie cretin Rot Speed: "Well you make up a lot of stuff and it's total ******** most of it." MID: |
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On 04/13/2019 07:35 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/13/2019 6:10 AM, Bod wrote: Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. One of the problems is that people like Rod Speed believe what they want to and not what has been proven true. There is a huge difference between talking on the phone and talking to a passenger. The phone takes a bigger chunk of your attention and you are less likely to stop talking if a traffic situation needs your immediate attention. It always the other guy, I know what I'm doing! I'm not that big on passengers either. |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:53:03 -0600, rbowman
wrote: On 04/12/2019 09:31 PM, wrote: If you need a nav to find a place where you have the address, either your addressing scheme is ****ed up or you don't understand it. The reality is, I don't go that many places that I don't know how to get to. I would have killed for a GPS and cellphone when I was driving OTR, particularly one of the Rand McNally versions that understands trucks. Nothing like finally finding a pay phone where you can park an eighteen wheeler, calling the consignee, and getting directions from the front office ditz, which you transcribe on your pad. Halfway there you realize the route that works for her Pinto ain't working for you. I tended to collect city maps and had a big Tupperware container full. I saw a cheap briefcase in a dumpster and figured it would be an upgrade. Upon closer inspection I found the previous owner mush have been caught short and had **** in it. Dumpster diving ain't all it's cracked up to be. If I was delivering pizzas or something NAV might be useful but I seldom go anywhere I have not been before and when I do I just print out a map before I go if it is not obvious. The addressing scheme here is very logical and usually just with the street name and number I can drive right to it. The only thing that bothers me is people who do not have the number on their building. The fire department gripes about the same thing and occasionally they go around hanging paper for it. It is the law. I don't have the 18 wheeler problem in my Honda but I did drive a truck,. I understand what you are saying. You don't want to be 2 turns down a dead end street with no way to turn around. |
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On 4/13/2019 12:53 PM, rbowman wrote:
I would have killed for a GPS and cellphone when I was driving OTR, particularly one of the Rand McNally versions that understands trucks. Nothing like finally finding a pay phone where you can park an eighteen wheeler, calling the consignee, and getting directions from the front office ditz, which you transcribe on your pad. Halfway there you realize the route that works for her Pinto ain't working for you. There were also the drivers too cheap to get the proper device and cheaped out on the standard Garmin. I worked near a low bridge and could point them out. |
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On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 10:06:37 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote:
"A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Statistics say otherwise. https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...tatistics.html Andy I know many cell phones user who got into accidents. |
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"Bod" wrote in message ... On 13/04/2019 03:59, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, Nothing even remotely like as distracted as when they are drunk. which is what this action is designed to detect. And the reality is that it can't work out if its the driver or a passenger who is using a phone, so its completely useless. |
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"Bod" wrote in message ... On 13/04/2019 11:06, Rod Speed wrote: "Bod" wrote in message ... On 13/04/2019 03:02, A K wrote: On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Glad you can see the sense in it. There is no sense in it when it can't even work out if the driver is using it or a passenger is. And its a bare faced pig ignorant lie that using a phone is as bad as being a drunk driver. The evidence defeats your claim. There is no evidence that holding a phone while driving has the same effect on the driving ability as being drunk, liar. |
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Marius Josipovic wrote
Rod Speed wrote Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Hang up and drive! Go and **** yourself. https://katv.com/news/local/arkansas...-while-driving Texting isnt talking on the phone, ****wit. |
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message ... On 4/13/2019 6:10 AM, Bod wrote: Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. One of the problems is that people like Rod Speed believe what they want to and not what has been proven true. There is a huge difference between talking on the phone and talking to a passenger. And yet its legal to use a handsfree when driving. The phone takes a bigger chunk of your attention Oh bull**** with a hands free. and you are less likely to stop talking if a traffic situation needs your immediate attention. More bull****. It always the other guy, I know what I'm doing! |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:07:33 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:39:52 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message news On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:48:51 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message news:vfu1be1ccua30ucap55gtftvdcnqgm8gvl@4ax. com... On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 04:45:27 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message news:5ug1be9cc5u6ipee173ff2b69a0dv6kn2i@4a x.com... On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:21:54 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: "gregz" wrote in message ... Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. Have to remember phones talk to base by itself for location regardless. But easy to distinguish between that and voice calls and texts. How about the data dumps the car does? Indeed, the entire thing is completely hare brained. And what the satnav is doing as well. These days that link is being used for a lot more than just phone calls and texts. I was reading an article in one of my electronic trade rags that says we ain't seen nothing yet. The protocol is in place for virtually constant communication between cars and all sorts of things, feeding real time information to and from your on board computers. Particularly with the satnav. Personally I think I want to find that antenna and cut the wire or wrap the antenna in aluminum foil. I don't, I find the satnav alone is very convenient. I was doing a run into our state capital by car with me supposed to catch the train back to my home town and it was interesting to watch google maps using the traffic data to update the arrival time. It was spot on. The stupid thing on the mate's Nokia was way out and never got updated on the arrival time. I don't even carry a phone. Mad. We now coordinate the garage/yard sale run on the phone, normally talking to each other for the full couple of house between waiting for the first one to open and the last one to finish and being able to tell each other about extra ones that didn't bother to advertise in the local paper for $40 and didn't use facebook to advertise it, just put a sign on the street power or light pole etc. I have my own local facebook group where I post all the ads from the local paper and the local buy sell swap groups and where anyone can post their garage/yard sale ad and update that as they open etc. The paper discourages advertisers from including the street number so they don't get people showing up the day before while they are setting up etc. So I add the street number when that becomes obvious when it opens. Google maps on the phone does a hell of a lot better than the dedicated satnavs in the car etc do too, particularly with the traffic information and where a serious car crash has produced a traffic jam etc. I don't use nav in the car either. I know where I am going and if I don't I will look at a map. Mad, satnav leaves maps for dead. Kids there used to be these things called maps ;-) I used them before satnavs showed up and satnavs leave them for dead. I lived "connected" during pretty much all of my working life (24/7) and now I like being off the grid. Mad when out driving. I don't want to be constantly available Don't have to be and still use it for what it does best. and I certainly don't need some woman in my car telling me where to go. Stupid to use a physical map now. Maybe you just can't look at a map and remember where you are going. Corse I can and did before satnavs showed up. Around here I could draw a map. Irrelevant to whats most useful in places you arent familiar with. I worked 15 years on the road around here and I know where things are. Pity about where you havent done that. I think we have become dumber as a society because we depend too much on technology. You're wrong about that too. If you need a nav to find a place where you have the address, either your addressing scheme is ****ed up or you don't understand it. Or its much more convenient to say 'hey siri go to 24 Jones Ave' and have it tell you every turn and route you around traffic congestion than to fart around with a paper map, luddite dinosaur. The reality is, I don't go that many places that I don't know how to get to. Even just 1 or two a year is worth doing the right way when its free, luddite dinosaur. Nothing is free. That's bull**** too. It costs no more to use it for that when you already have the phone for other reasons. |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:04:06 +1000, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:26:43 -0600, rbowman wrote: On 04/12/2019 11:03 AM, wrote: How about the data dumps the car does? These days that link is being used for a lot more than just phone calls and texts. I was reading an article in one of my electronic trade rags that says we ain't seen nothing yet. The protocol is in place for virtually constant communication between cars and all sorts of things, feeding real time information to and from your on board computers. I swear my next new (to me) car will be a 1960 Valiant. I understand the 225 ci slant six pretty well. My 97 Honda has the perfect amount of electronics. The ABS controller, fuel injection and an MP3 player. Only for a luddite dinosaur. Its useful to have a decent OBD2 system that tells you when a sensor has failed so you can just replace it with a high certainty of being the fault etc. And handy for all but luddite dinosaurs to have Apple Carplay and Google Auto so that its easy to have your phone use the main dash screen and handy to have a decent dash screen so you can see the various stuff that you want to have it show too. Handy to have full 360 cameras for parking instead of farting around with external mirrors for that and to make it much easier to see see where the corners are when parking, particularly with the modern small cars which slope the front down so fast that even a tall person cant see any of it when sitting in the drivers seat. And to have those cameras act as dashcams all around when the car is moving and as surveillance cameras when its parked too. And to be a reversing camera so you don't run over little kids when backing etc. The VW Golf even has a fancy system which helps with reversing a small trailer when none of the trailer is visible out the back window, particularly when its empty. And a decent cruise controls which keeps a specified distance from the car in front and which allows you to specify that distance by speed so that it still works when inching forward in a traffic jam and when tearing along the freeway etc. Also handy to keep track of fuel consumption and the fuel level so you can see at a glance how far you can go till you need to fill again and ideally show you the petrol stations in front of you that you can make it to and the price they are selling petrol for too. Some of us just know how to drive. Got nothing to do with know how to drive you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist. |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:10:38 +0100, Bod wrote: On 13/04/2019 03:59, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. Agreed. I really think this phone thing started back when "car phones" were rare and expensive and people without phones were ****ed about it. Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something. They actually do it because they find it convenient. Same with talking on the phone when walking around etc too. BTW I do agree about texting. The mere fact that you are typing on that screen or banging text out on a numeric keypad means you are not driving. But not if you are doing the texting the best way, having the phone read you the text and allows you to dictate the reply etc. I would also question using your phone for a NAV,. Yes, you actually are that stupid. The NAV in my wife's Lincoln will not take any kind of input while the car is moving even if the passenger is doing it. Mindlessly ****ed by design. |
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If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. Agreed. I really think this phone thing started back when "car phones" were rare and expensive and people without phones were ****ed about it. Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something. They actually do it because they find it convenient. Same with talking on the phone when walking around etc too. BTW I do agree about texting. The mere fact that you are typing on that screen or banging text out on a numeric keypad means you are not driving. But not if you are doing the texting the best way, having the phone read you the text and allows you to dictate the reply etc. I would also question using your phone for a NAV,. Yes, you actually are that stupid. The NAV in my wife's Lincoln will not take any kind of input while the car is moving even if the passenger is doing it. Mindlessly ****ed by design. Much like your brain. -- Bod --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Lonely Psychopathic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:18:12 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: There is no sense in it when it can't even work out if the driver is using it or a passenger is. And it¢s a bare faced pig ignorant lie that using a phone is as bad as being a drunk driver. The evidence defeats your claim. There is no evidence that holding a phone while driving has the same effect on the driving ability as being drunk, liar. BOTH increase the risk of accidents, senile asshole! -- "Anonymous" to trolling senile Rot Speed: "You can **** off as you know less than pig **** you sad little ignorant ****." MID: |
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"A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 10:06:37 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Statistics say otherwise. There can't be any reliable statistics on the non phone distractions. https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...tatistics.html I know many cell phones user who got into accidents. None of the ones I know have had an accident using one and we spend hours on the phone during the garage/yard sale run. |
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"Bod" wrote in message ... If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. Agreed. I really think this phone thing started back when "car phones" were rare and expensive and people without phones were ****ed about it. Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something. They actually do it because they find it convenient. Same with talking on the phone when walking around etc too. BTW I do agree about texting. The mere fact that you are typing on that screen or banging text out on a numeric keypad means you are not driving. But not if you are doing the texting the best way, having the phone read you the text and allows you to dictate the reply etc. I would also question using your phone for a NAV,. Yes, you actually are that stupid. The NAV in my wife's Lincoln will not take any kind of input while the car is moving even if the passenger is doing it. Mindlessly ****ed by design. Much like your brain. You never could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag or even get an usenet client working properly, Trump spawn. |
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On 4/12/19 3:54 PM, wrote:
[snip] I don't use nav in the car either. I know where I am going and if I don't I will look at a map. Kids there used to be these things called maps ;-) There were also the crashes caused by a driver distracted by looking at a map instead of the road. I lived "connected" during pretty much all of my working life (24/7) and now I like being off the grid. I don't want to be constantly available and I certainly don't need some woman in my car telling me where to go. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park." [Curtis McDougall] |
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On 4/12/19 9:32 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/12/2019 06:27 PM, wrote: Maybe you just can't look at a map and remember where you are going. Around here I could draw a map. I worked 15 years on the road around here and I know where things are. I could draw a map but it wouldn't have much in the way of street names. I could draw a map of the area I grew up in. It would lack the same error that appeared on almost all city maps. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park." [Curtis McDougall] |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:17:40 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/13/2019 10:26 AM, wrote: Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. There are huge differences depending on circumstances. Cruising on a two lane with not much traffic and calling home to ask what's for dinner takes little brain power. Same with a cup of coffee. Eating a burger in heavy traffic can be a distraction if you have to maneuver quickly. Talking to a customer on the phone and trying to give them tech support on a serious problem in heavy fast moving traffic is a much greater distraction. The law is not silly in every condition. The problem is the law has no "conditions". In some states they could write you a ticket for using a phone, sitting at a light. None talk about traffic conditions or will try to decide what your conversation was about. If the word comes down, "we aren't writing enough phone tickets", cops will write tickets. |
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Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers (UK)
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:26:20 -0700 (PDT), A K
wrote: On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 10:06:37 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Statistics say otherwise. https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...tatistics.html Andy I know many cell phones user who got into accidents. How many crashes happen with kids in the car? |
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:17:03 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: "Bod" wrote in message ... On 13/04/2019 03:59, Rod Speed wrote: "A K" wrote in message ... On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote: Mobile phone detectors are to be used by police to find drivers using devices at the wheel. The Thames Valley and Hampshire forces are rolling out the technology to show when motorists are using their phones. A sign will flash at the driver telling them to stop using their mobile - but the detectors cannot tell if it is a driver or passenger using the phone. The detector picks up 2G, 3G and 4G signals and will therefore flash to alert people in cars who are using phones to call, text or data. If people are using a Bluetooth hands-free device, the detector will recognise this and not flash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47896472 If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, Nothing even remotely like as distracted as when they are drunk. How "drunk"? 0.05? 0.08? .25? |
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On 4/12/19 9:59 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
[snip] Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger That's not true. 1. You're in the same place, not (mentally) in some other place where that other person is. 2. The passenger sees what you see and can know when to be quiet. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park." [Curtis McDougall] |
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:24:42 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: wrote in message .. Even just 1 or two a year is worth doing the right way when its free, luddite dinosaur. Nothing is free. That's bull**** too. It costs no more to use it for that when you already have the phone for other reasons. I have a phone to use as a phone, it doesn't have a NAV, broadband capability or anything like that, it is very cheap to own, particularly when it is sitting at home but if I bought a "smart phone" with a data plan, GPS and all the "free ****" you are talking about it would cost hundreds of dollars for the phone and way more per year to have. Nothing is free. |
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On 4/12/19 10:26 PM, wrote:
[snip] My 97 Honda has the perfect amount of electronics. The ABS controller, fuel injection and an MP3 player. No touchscreens (which are harder to use than buttons when you should be looking at the road. You can't find the "buttons" by touch.). No social media or smartphone interfaces (I don't want those). -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park." [Curtis McDougall] |
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:49:24 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: "Bod" wrote in message ... If it stops just one death, it has to be a good thing. that's a great idea. Bull**** it is when it can't work out whether it is the driver or a passenger using the phone. Drivers using cell phones are as distracted as drunk drivers. Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. They are distracted if they are holding the phone to their ear, which is what this action is designed to detect. Why is holding a phone any more distracting than holding a cup of coffee, a cigarette or a hamburger? For that matter what could be more distracting than trying to see what your kids are doing in the back seat where the law now makes them sit? We are "safetying" our selves to death. I don't do any of this since I don't carry a phone but I do question a silly law. Agreed. I really think this phone thing started back when "car phones" were rare and expensive and people without phones were ****ed about it. Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something. They actually do it because they find it convenient. Same with talking on the phone when walking around etc too. BTW I do agree about texting. The mere fact that you are typing on that screen or banging text out on a numeric keypad means you are not driving. But not if you are doing the texting the best way, having the phone read you the text and allows you to dictate the reply etc. I would also question using your phone for a NAV,. Yes, you actually are that stupid. The NAV in my wife's Lincoln will not take any kind of input while the car is moving even if the passenger is doing it. Mindlessly ****ed by design. Much like your brain. You never could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag or even get an usenet client working properly, Trump spawn. Said by one who bull****s all the time. How often are you in the bag when you post anyway? |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:13:20 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 4/12/19 3:54 PM, wrote: [snip] I don't use nav in the car either. I know where I am going and if I don't I will look at a map. Kids there used to be these things called maps ;-) There were also the crashes caused by a driver distracted by looking at a map instead of the road. If you have the memory of a fruit fly, you can look at the map, remember it and drive there. Why is this so hard. It makes ne wonder how we ever got around before phones got smarter than most of their users. |
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On 4/13/19 1:20 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Marius Josipovic wrote Rod Speed wrote Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger and are much less distracted than with unruly brats in the car. Hang up and drive! Go and **** yourself. but don't do it while driving. https://katv.com/news/local/arkansas...-while-driving -- "Man created God in his own image." |
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Mark Lloyd wrote
Rod Speed wrote Thats a lie too. Most drivers using a phone while driving are no more distracted than when talking to a passenger That's not true. Easy to claim. 1. You're in the same place, not (mentally) in some other place where that other person is. In my case I am normally talking to my mate in his car when I am in my car and we are both driving up and down the street trying to work out which of the houses the garage/yard sale will actually be at. They mostly dont list their street number to avoid someone showing up the day before etc. 2. The passenger sees what you see and can know when to be quiet. Yes, but that is hardly ever reality and the law allows you to use the phone hands free so the law clearly doesnt consider that that is an important factor. |
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