> On a 4-5 hour drive can anyone focus 100% on the road for the duration? Really? 100%?
#Drive and listen night drivers#
I never expected to see drivers prosecuted for eating an apple at the wheel or taking a drink during a journey but this has happened so the climate has changed and that was why I made my comment about expecting the law to be clarified before too long. with it off you're somehow more connected with everything, hopefully the ground too, provided it's safe) I might be an exception (if I'm alone in the hills at night I prefer not to use a headtorch till I really can't manage safely without it as the small pool of lit up area makes me feel less aware and more uncomfortable about what is in the dark behind me. First time was the last time as I felt so vulnerable with one of my senses compromised. I tried cycling with headphones when I first got a Walkman in the early 80s. I once tried light, walkman type headphones but hated the sense of being cut off from the outside world, totally different from speakers. If there's only crap on then it'll be off. I'm happiest driving with the radio on and something interesting but not too distracting.
#Drive and listen night free#
To be clear, and I don't think listening on headphones is anything like as bad as using a phone while driving, hands free or not. I tend to mention that I need to pay more attention if someone is talking too much and suggest they listen to something on the radio (you can tell I've done a lot of driving on my own!) if I don't feel like talking at that time. Had they been more generic it'd have banned you using your satnav feature in a cradle (because it's part of a phone that could be handheld) which would have been rather stupid, as satnav has many positive road-safety features (as long as you don't prat about with it while driving).Ĭertainly true.
That's because it was written in the days of Nokia dumbphones. Whether listening is counted as 'use' I don't know, but you do get the impression that the law was written in a way which is ambiguous towards some of the functions of modern phones. The offence is 'using' a hand-held device whilst driving. The definition is: "a mobile telephone or other device is to be treated as hand-held if it is, or must be, held at some point during the course of making or receiving a call or performing any other interactive communication function"For the phone in the pocket, it still counts as hand-held, even if it is not held in the hand whilst driving, whilst the phone in the cradle is not. Not quite (according to the letter of the law).
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