Drive Aware Course (Mobile Phone)

Daz2009

I've never understand the need to answer a ringing phone while you're driving.So,you'll miss the call.So what ?As soon as you stop .....pull over if it's safe to do so if you are impatient,remembering to turn the ignition off else the plod can still do you...you'll see who's rung you and you can ring them back.SAFELY !
Keep the phone in your pocket/handbag whichever suits

somethingcorporate

If it's important they will ring back or leave a message.

jase1

A recent Mythbusters episode ascertained that it's just as dangerous to hold a conversation on hands-free as it is with the phone to your ear. It's the distraction caused by having to think about two things at once that causes the danger rather than the physical act of holding a phone while driving.

The implication of that would be that holding a conversation with a passenger, or having screaming sprogs in the back of the car is just as bad.

I do have hands-free but it's there for emergencies. I hate it when work colleagues attend meetings on the road on the hands-free, it can't be safe.

ab1982

I wonder if it’s a generational thing, I’d love to say I would but I just wouldn't ignore a ringing phone, its counter-intuitive to me. Certainly since being pulled for it I wouldn't answer without hands free and I was hoping the course would have some good tips.

I wonder what the difference in risk is between speaking on the phone or texting, emailing or facebooking because I think the latter is done a lot more especially in slow moving traffic. I cycle through city centre rush hour and I reckon 1/2 or 1/3 are tapping on a phone on their knee, you can see it from a bike when filtering.

Re hands-free being just as bad, I don’t feel like I don’t concentrate when on hands-free, maybe not on the conversation but certainly ok with driving. I have work colleagues who make a list of calls they need to make from the car on their commute.

jase1

I would think that anything that involves taking your eye off the road is unquestionably dangerous, and I would expect anyone who has a crash under these circumstances, where it could be proved, would receive a custodial sentence, especially if someone was hurt.

Whereas talking on the phone is a bit more grey; you are distracted but you are at least looking ahead.

woolythoughts

jase1 wrote: »

It's the distraction caused by having to think about two things at once that causes the danger rather than the physical act of holding a phone.

Maybe hands free kits should deactivate themselves if they detect a mans voice rather than a woman's

:rotfl:

jase1

woolythoughts wrote: »

Maybe hands free kits should deactivate themselves if they detect a mans voice rather than a woman's

:rotfl:

:rotfl:

I like your thinking

Funnily enough they didn't test women vs men in their show... I wonder if I should suggest it

(EDIT: Actually yes they did, but only on a driving simulator which is never completely reliable).

fishybusiness

I wonder what the difference in risk is between speaking on the phone or texting, emailing or facebooking because I think the latter is done a lot more especially in slow moving traffic. I cycle through city centre rush hour and I reckon 1/2 or 1/3 are tapping on a phone on their knee, you can see it from a bike when filtering.

Re hands-free being just as bad, I don’t feel like I don’t concentrate when on hands-free, maybe not on the conversation but certainly ok with driving. I have work colleagues who make a list of calls they need to make from the car on their commute.

There is stacks of science that demonstrates the dangers, we've (nearly) all done it, the risks are becoming ever more sobering....

Psychological research is showing that when drivers use cell phones, whether hand-held or hands-off, their attention to the road drops and driving skills become even worse than if they had too much to drink. Epidemiological research has found that cell-phone use is associated with a four-fold increase in the odds of getting into an accident - a risk comparable to that of driving with blood alcohol at the legal limit.

http://www.apa.org/research/action/drive.aspx

I've been on the course for jumping a red light, tbh didn't think it was a problem, it is and the course was ok, brought me round a bit.

photome

Biscuits included on the one I went on and no getting out half hour early, I think it was about £86 as well rather than £100

robbies_gal

here s a tip

dont do it