Just As Dangerous To Eat A Banana !

oneonesit wrote: Whale wrote: Disagree, often the mere act of touching it or looking at you is enough, the phone grabs your attention, that is how they are designed to work. & what about peeling a banana or taking a hamburger out of a wrapper ?

oneonesit wrote: So it is easier to peel a banana while driving than hanging onto a mobile phone ? - & as Redemption said - sit outside a Maccas Drive Through & watch how many start to scoff their food before going 20m

Totally legal as well - which is why I started the thread

Whale wrote: oneonesit wrote: So it is easier to peel a banana while driving than hanging onto a mobile phone ? - & as Redemption said - sit outside a Maccas Drive Through & watch how many start to scoff their food before going 20m I have given my opinion, I rarely use a mobile but even I am tempted to answer calls while driving, I have many times. If I was fined so be it , my fault

& so you should - it is dangerous. But so must be eating a banana

Excellent Thread!

I have never said that Whale ... I closed the books at 14.

... still 10.

Just seeing the latest road statistics I thought this thread needed to be revisited

Seriously - if you watch these Cop shows like Highway Patrol & Motorbike Cops it really shows just how over the top it is. And the coppers talk about their sneaky ways to catch someone. The latest is P plate drivers are not supposed to have a phone within arms length - can be sitting on the passengers seat & they can book you. Go up down cars stopped at  lights peaking in the passenger window looking for anyone touching a phone. Yet i can fiddle with the digital display for the radio, air-con, hot seat warming, air vents & so on & that's OK - & eat a banana & peel an orange.

You don't phone, engage in conversation with, text or scroll a banana. At least I don't.

Tlazolteotl wrote: You don't phone, engage in conversation with, text or scroll a banana. At least I don't.

I think most people would be doing all that based on my experience with my wizz bang apple car play performance - which apparently isn't that unusual across all cars. And are you telling me having a conversation on the phone is dangerous. If so - better ban all speaking. 

Do they ever release the full stats in incidents? As in suburb, speed, etc? When they talk of such things it reeks of dishonesty, manipulations and generalisations

Those copper shows don't do any favor's. Not sure why the powers to be think they do & give approval for them to be produced for TV

& here's the problem. As soon as you ask questions the standard response is "it saves lives". Pretty hard to argue that it doesn't save some - so that gives rise to the penalty just going up & up . I mean what a great solution for the Government of the day - save lives at the same time as making more money