TV/DVD Screens to be banned?

Most police cars have screeens in the front seat to check on regos etc.

Now they will have to go to the back seat to check.

Pooley

The data terminals cut out when rotated to a position where the driver can see it unless the handbrake is on and or its in park.

its has always got on my goat when you observe the amount of time a taxi driver takes his eye off the road for while working his booking system - similar to worse thatn using a phone / sms while driving.
I think banning of entertainment displays from the the drivers vision ( in his own vehicle) is a reasonable measure.
Paul.

I think that may be what has prompted the govt action, is that some drivers do watch the screens while they drive!

thats easier than reading the paper, those broadsheets are a PITA in heavy traffic

stuff them, I'm brewing me beer at 9%, they can get stuffed

Since when has Madonna's knockers been unimportant! that's what people want to read Jim, that why the Sun has a huge circulation, that's why the Age has a dismal circulation. I think you need to chill out a bit Jim, hang out with a few cool dudes for a while and hope something rubs off, life is short.

"Since when has Madonna's knockers been unimportant! that's what people want to read Jim"

People maybe, but not those who want read the news.

"Sun has a huge circulation, that's why the Age has a dismal circulation"

That is a reflection of the intelligence of who reads what. The masses are dills.

I wouldn't wipe my freckle with The Sun. It is a grubby tabloid rag. What's more it it is very biased.

Still, everyone is entitled to read whatever they like and be informed (or ill informed) as they like.

"Cool Dudes" "Chill Out" Not me. I don't adhere to Yank jargon.

Yeah you're probably right Jim and I'm one of the dills too but life feels good so it must be ok to be a dill. Go the dills. I guess some are happy being grumpy old buggers and that's ok too.

Ray,

I couldn't be happier. I have a Wife and Sons whom I love dearly, and due to misfortune, they all have significant health issues. But bugger me, they are all still alive and reasonably well. I'm not sure you understand how happy that makes me.

I'm the kinda bloke who sees the glass as half, not half empty. I like to to see the world as it is. Hence I read The Age (had it home delivered for years now).

Bullchit it is no longer important to me. I don't want to read about Tom Cruise's in growing toe nail.

My outlook on life has changed dramatically in the last 18 months. I simply don't have time for insignificant crap.

All the best,

Jim.

The Age is a Left Wing rag that doesn't have the testicles to sack Terry Lane when he prints an article that is an internet hoax.

Left wing rag?

Just to clue you up a little, The Age has, in it's election day editorial, advocated a vote for the Coalition at the last three federal elections.

Whatever but newspapers should stick with reporting the news and not align themselves with any political party and attempt to influence people. Editorials and all other soapbox columns should also be scrapped, well maybe that's going a bit far but I get peeved off with a lot of the opinionated crap from journalists.

The Age is still part of Bracksie's bandwagon Jimbo, though the bolts are losening iround the bolt holes.

I think some are getting right off track.

My original post was that The Herald Sun is a Papparazzi driven tabloid that is more interested in the nuances of celbrities than decent, informed reporting of the important things in life.

Quite simply if you want to read about the real news issues, buy The Age. If you're more interested in scuttlebut and trivia, buy The Herald Sun. It's a personal choice depending on what you choose to be informed about.

I read all my news online, just news and no other crap from the ABC. I have a window open continously, haven't brought a paper in years.

Jimbo .... why don't you start your own thread about the relative merits of particular newspapers & don't hijack this one!

Shaker, why don'y you practice what you preach?

Lecturing me on hijacking? Ever heard the one about the pot and the kettle?

Refer me to a thread that I have hijacked with totally irrelevant input.

'Mother %&^*&(^%$#......ing Bolshevik'. Just new it. (ROFLMAO)

You R such good value JIMBO. Nothing much happening east of Dandenong I take it.

Shaker,

I'll put this as simply as I can.

My response was to highlight that your post was about information gathered from an unreliable media source that has no credibility in the world of decent journalism.

Ever heard the term "tabloid journalism"? It is a media term to describe pathetic reporting by grubby press organisations.

You have a right to post whatever you like. Similarly I have a right to question its authenticity.

Hence the relevance.

Ken you old bastard, did you get a day pass from the Nursing Home?

Where have you been? I was worried the dimentia had taken over completely and you couldn't remember who you were.

I agree Jim, the old goat still has no rig pic up.

I don't live in Vic but i do agree with Jimbo that most news is rubbish. ABC tv news is the best, and for international affairs SBS. I'm always fascinated by the difference in quality and bias between ABC and commercial stations in what is apparently the same story.

For example: Petrol prices and the oil problems are reported very superficially by commercial stations. They usually have some "expert" come on and predict prices will be $2.50 by Christmas. ABC actually analyse the issues and provide perspectives on contributing factors. If you want to understand whats going on the ABC is the only one. I don't waste my time with commercial news. If only the ABC had a nation-wide daily newspaper.

Careful Barnesy,

Being proud to watch and listen to the ABC (as I do almost exclusively) will get you branded as a "Pinko".

Jibo it seems that every paper that isn't a broadsheet is a "grubby tabloid" to you. Some of the Sun readers I know buy it because they don't have to read the article in depth to get the information, oh, and also some of them like to read Andrew Bolt too.

HAHA, Andrew Bolt, you mean he's still alive ?

Check out Ken's rig description.....he's got a bog stock troopy......not worth putting a photo up of a show-room spec old 75 series, hey!!! ??? hahaahahaha ;--)))

I think so Ray, but you never know with that Bolshie, Jimbo about. LOL

John,

I'll not trade petty insults with you.

I'm above that.

If you choose to read Andrew Bolt's column, I now understand you. That's not an insult, just an observation of your values.

Jimbo, the cover of Adelaide's Sunday Mail has cricket umpire Daryl Hair and a title saying how he wanted compensation for his troubles in that letter that he later withdrew and regretted. Three days afterwards it's the cover of the weekend paper. Agree with what you're saying. Waste of paper that would do more good remaining as a tree.

It is, as are a lot of other things that people ignore.

Are they illegal?? many new cars have touch screen controlled navigational systems....many more have some kind of LCD screen if not all, haven't these distractions been there since the time of the initial radio's?

Rod

Driver assistance screens are legal - TV or video screens visible by the driver or distracting drivers in OTHER vehicles are illegal.