Question about smoking when driving

Lum

It's not dangerous, your driver was just incompetent. Sorry.

banger9365

Lum wrote: »

Garbage? It's a copy of an interview with the manager of the Cumbria "safety" camera partnership. Of particular interest is the line

"He added that the remit of safety cameras could be extended to catch drivers using mobile phones, people overtaking on double white lines, and seatbelt offences."

For that to work they will be needing to film you through your windscreen. There's another thread on there where they link to the actual system in question which is currently working it's way through type approval.

If they can film you and do you for mobile phones and seatbelts, and they have sucessfully prosecuted people in the past for eating an apple, drinking water and smoking then it's only a matter of time before the two are put together and anyone driving through one of these new cameras with a fag in their hand gets an automatic ticket through the post.

"The Government does not have any plans at this point in time to introduce legislation to prohibit smoking in private cars,":T:T
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Smoking-In-Cars-Government-Stubs-Out-Car-Smoking-Ban-Laws-As-Woman-Prosecuted-In-Australia/Article/200910315409800
i think i will have a fag next time i go for a drive with a police car behind me

Lum

The key words ther are "at this point in time". Once the technology is in place to make such things enforcible, they might change their mind. This current lot do like to enforce what's easy to measure (eg. speed, hand held mobiles) rather than what's important (eg. too fast for the conditions, distraction by conversation)