http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Using Mobile Phones whilst Driving en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:33:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-159619 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:46:46 +0000 Min 159619@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I agree. It is just far too common to really be dealt with any other way. That advert is pretty good! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-159616 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:56:49 +0000 PS 159616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We need a number of campaigns that make mobile/computer use while driving as socially unacceptable as drink-driving. There's only so much the police can do on this, so it's going to need real social pressure.<a href="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlxjng8h3Tc">campaigns</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-159601 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:42:15 +0000 Min 159601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is talk of increasing the penalty for driving with a mobile phone (I assume it would extend to other devices?). I am not sure it would help since it might then be seen as too harsh which means even fewer drivers convicted. </p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28324408" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28324408</a></p> <p>The sheer huge volume of drivers using mobiles/tablets etc is just getting ridiculous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91991 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:31:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 91991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I refer readers back to my previous thread, with video, of someone reading a Kindle while driving. Tablet PC involves even more interaction/lack of attention! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91987 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:26:08 +0000 neddie 91987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I pulled up behind the driver of a silver Saab outside Craiglockhart primary school the other day. There were children everywhere. He was stuck in a traffic queue.</p> <p>Then the rest of the traffic in the queue moved on, but there was a long delay before he started moving. (This is a classic sign of someone texting while driving.)</p> <p>When I caught up with him and passed him, I was shocked to see he was using a TABLET PC on his lap!</p> <p>Unfortunately my helmet camera didn't get a good shot of the tablet, otherwise he'd be all over YouTube. Doh!</p> <p>I doubt the police will ever do anything about this. The best we can hope for is an online wall of shame for drivers (e.g YouTube videos, pictures). Googling a reg plate number should reveal any other misdemeanors that have been recorded in this way... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91978 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:59:04 +0000 Coxy 91978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have recently shared the ASL red patch with a big BMW 4x4 thingy. He wasn't using a mobile phone though, it was an electric toothbrush. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91977 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:58:16 +0000 Baldcyclist 91977@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just attended a session on Augmented Reality, just wait until it's iPads in front of peoples faces and head up displays on car windscreens. scary. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91968 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:27:40 +0000 cb 91968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few days back I saw a driver holding a phone in one hand when, with the other hand, he waved me across in front of him (I was on foot). That was nice of him so I had to reduce my Paddington Stare to a look of indifference. Had he not been on the phone he would have got a friendly wave. That'll teach him. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91961 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:02:55 +0000 Min 91961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only thing I can think of is to compile a log for a couple of months. Would be a bit of work but if you can present, say 100 motorists worth of dates, places and times they might take a look? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91960 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:58:15 +0000 SRD 91960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have no suggestions, but very much share this concern. I see it everyday in busy areas, around schools etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8976#post-91930 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:06:50 +0000 559 91930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We have had a lot of observations on this forum reported of drivers using mobile phones whilst driving. The feeling iam getting, perhaps incorrectly is that unless the police see this breach themselves or there is some form of crash which has witnesses, nothing happens.</p> <p>My latest was seen from vantage point of a coach, on the A8 near Eurocentral, driver of white range rover G1 TRU texting. Can't even find a suitable email address on Strathclyde Police website.</p> <p>As cyclists we have a good viewpoint of such behaviour, sadly though each of us is singular, how can we acheive multiple witnesses? </p>