FYI...New road rules for NSW re Mobile Phone use whilst driving.

Good - I agree with this 100%. Bring it to WA please.
David

Should have been in place years ago- BUT still will not stop people using them. I work with young people that send between 100-200 texts per day like their life depends on the phone

Good Heavens, if they apply similar rules to UHF radios some people will find it impossible to drive off-road! LOL

+1. Expect to see a lot of drivers wearing 'hearing aids' and still not focusing.

Been like that in Qld since at least 2009.

Good call for NSW Govt! Michael

should mail it out to every second Police officer they are the main offenders

In the states it is possible to purchase a unit that plugs into a power point that blocks reception. Maybe a product like this should be installed in cars? It's not only the driver that should be careful with phones. Passengers will also shove the things in front of the driver because they recieved a funny picture that needs to be seen now.

Pedestrians need to stop texting while walking across roads as well

Hi
And there should be more policing what people doing in their cars.
Drivers having a breakfast, putting on make-ups, reading anything from documents to newspapers and magazines.
And my personal pet-hate, passengers having their feet stuck on dashboard, out of windows and on top of front seats.
Can you imagine to have an accident? I don’t have to.
I have had seen one of those accident in Europe. It was a nightmare for me ..…Girls own feed smashed her face beyond recognition.
Hoo Roo Dana

G'day Fred, any action to align State rules must be a good result, but none of the current
rules seem to be having any effect on the number using phones while driving. Obviously,
the penalties arent a deterrent, & I imagine no fine would deter those poor souls that
are so addicted to the phone god that it has taken over their lives.
I doubt if the highest number of phone addicts has even reached "driving age" yet..&
I refer to teen girls...so unless attitudes change somewhere this phone/driving thing
still has a long way to go..
Conversely, I wonder how other electronic distractions are not considered safety
factors..& I refer to 2way radios, headphones/boom boxes, & the sat nav stuff, some of
which covers large areas of the windscreen.
On reflection, there are a multitude of driver distractions, arent there..../
maybe the answer is somewhere between education & commonsense.
cheers....oldbaz.

Unfortunately these rules will , by and large, prove to be a waste of time.

The restrictions on P Platers are particularly useless.

Coming up with draconian legislation appeasers the short term thinking, shock jocks and the righteous, but fails to address the base problem which is customer demand driven.

The effective way to reduce issues surrounding phone use in cars is to work harder to work with people and provide better technical solutions.

One day - not to far off - full voice control of such devices will provide seamless phone use from a car - then we will all benefit - if the short term thinkers don't legislate to have compulsory gags applied before the ignition interlock can be disengaged.

they should make it law that GPS have to be pre-programmed before pulling out from kerb too,,, dont know how many idiots I've seen causing near accidents because they are programming a GPS or making adjustments to it while driving ,,, worse than mobile phones I reckon

Gday,
What is the dangerous thing about using mobile phones (talking on them, not texting) while driving?.........Is it driving one handed?...........Or not concentrating on the road?

All of this is good stuff, but what amuses me (NOT!!) is how you're supposed to know it by osmosis or something. As far as I can tell there has been no real effort to educate the public about the changes. I get daily newspapers, watch TV news and a bit of commercial TV. I do not recall any ads, promotions, public service announcements etc. Maybe just a once-off snippett on tabloid TV but no concerted effort to tell us all about it - more than once just in case we missed it the first time.

And when you get nabbed they say "Ignorance of the law is no excuse".

But it is a nice revenue-raiser.