Bartelby
Bionic Poster
If all you do is touch a phone on the passenger seat then this would be an infraction of the law, so the number actually using a phone would be a fraction of 100k.
Governments like to create moral panics about narrowly-defined issues that they can intervene in easily, so mobile use is this year's topic.
From my point of view, and to repeat myself, it's the video surveillance that causes me the most concern.
Governments like to create moral panics about narrowly-defined issues that they can intervene in easily, so mobile use is this year's topic.
From my point of view, and to repeat myself, it's the video surveillance that causes me the most concern.
IIRC, mobile use was legal in CA for years. Everyone did it (at least occasionally) and most drivers used mobiles quickly, safely and responsibly.
These draconian measures are simply a money grab by a failed government hungry for revenue.
Even after making it illegal. a significant number are still doing it.
During a three-month trial at two locations in metropolitan Sydney (Anzac Parade and the M4 Motorway), 100,000 drivers were detected using a mobile phone illegally among the 8.3 million vehicles caught on camera, the equivalent of more than $34 million in fines.Sophisticated software automatically detects if a driver is handling a phone. Filtered images are then checked by a human eye by NSW authorities before a fine is issued. Discarded images are deleted from digital files within an hour.