Posted on 04/13/2018 1:12:28 AM PDT by cba123
NEW hi-tech cameras that detect drivers using their mobile phones without them even knowing and automatically issues fines could soon change everything.
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DISTRACTION is one of the leading causes of fatal road crashes in Australia but new hi-tech cameras that detect drivers using their mobile phones without them even knowing could soon change everything.
A New South Wales Police spokesman told news.com.au that officers currently "use a variety of methods to detect drivers using their phones while driving".
"Line-of-site, by trained officers is the primary method of detection, however, long-ranged cameras have been used with success, and helmet cameras in motorcycle police continue to be used," the spokesman said.
But that technology could soon be replaced by stationary cameras that automatically issue an infringement notice without the driver even realising they’ve been sprung.
(full article) http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/hitech/drivers-using-mobile-phones-could-be-fined-without-even-knowing-theyve-been-caught/news-story/ecb141e8552b39560f7f395802e447d7
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Big Brother has already been here and gone, leaving all of his illegitimate government-funding children behind. Wait until you find out that your cell-phone and house-wiring reporting every thought yoy have, every flatulent noise your body emits. This is freedom? This is liberty to do as you choose?
Like so called red light cameras, they will be illegal in many if not all states ...
This should have included ‘Australia’ in the headline.
Automated image recognition software. It’s going to detect all kinds of things, even to keep cats from killing birds, etc.
I wondered when tech would reach this level.
That’s why many people live in the sticks as off the grid as possible.
Simple solution. Don’t use your mobile phone while driving. Turn it off until you reach your destination.
Theirs is an Australian problem and perhaps they’ll do what they need to do. Ours is an American problem and we should have done what needed to do a long time ago. Something is wrong when you’re safer among drivers who have had 4-5 drinks than people who are texting and driving in any driving conditions. In Michigan, if you’ve been busted twice before for DUI and get caught a third time, you’re facing felony charges. The penalties for texting and driving should be same. Police departments all over the country should add “device squads” as a sub-group of their vice squads...and why don’t we hear anything from Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) about getting tough on texting and driving?
>>Like so called red light cameras, they will be illegal in many if not all states ...
Not before some cop or council member’s cousin gets millions in shared revenue from the cameras...
No. How about that?
Turn it off? It’s mobile. As in moving. As in traveling. It has a purpose and a function in that mode which is convenient and worth the cost of hardware, software and service.
Declaring someone can’t use technology and drive at the same time is a lazy categorical no different to ‘CO2 causes global warming’ except those who consider themselves non-PC view phones and drivers as a convenient target of scorn.
‘It’s as dangerous as DUI!’ Horseflop. Intoxication doesn’t disappear in a split second.
Are there many who are incapable of using both safely and responsibly? Yes. Are there are others who are not? Yes again.
But the point, as always, remains: is the state authorized or justified in adding yet another layer of surveillance especially for an unquantified/unquantifiable and therefore unprovable additional veneer of ‘safety?’
CDC and MADD and others are continually trying to define downward the standard for “intoxication”. Do you agree with Sweden’s 0.01 BAC standard? Our government wants to push it down to 0.03 (currently at 0.08 nationally down from 0.15 and CDC is advocating 0.05).
The mother who founded MADD left that organization decades ago and went on to lobby on behalf of the alcohol industry and drinking establishments. She was not out for neo-prohibitionism but she could see that’s what it had become.
I still have some old Rand McNallys that I can unfold across the steering wheel, but they are a bit outdated. And not much less distracting than listening to turn-by-turn instructions.
No handsfree via Bluetooth?
Nothing wrong with a phone call, especially when it’s hands free. It’s texting that must be stopped.
Cops in (I believe) one of the Carolinas, drive around with partners in tractor trailer cabs looking down into cars where they get an excellent view of texters.
I slip my phone speaker side up in my shirt pocket and listen to the WAZE robot voice tell me when and where to turn. Easy peasy. And I’m an old guy.
Might be in NC.
Never heard of that here in SC.
Simple solution. Don’t use your mobile phone while driving. Turn it off until you reach your destination.
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Most cars have built in bluetooth to connect a phone thru the car’s radio so you can answer and make calls as easily as one listens to the car radio. Or do you think car radios should also be banned?
I think gun owners should be allowed to shoot them out of their hands.
also when i take a sh*t?
but i do agree that idiots who can’t drive in the first place cause more accidents than those who drive at 1.0...and those who are testing with a damn dog in their lap...well a true leftist brain dead mega phone responder!
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