On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:49:02 +0100, Paul Rooney was popularly supposed to have said:
Exactly.
Human brains are not good at task-swapping; they like to be either driving OR talking on a phone, and one tast tends to get priority over another one.
There's a simple way to sort this one, though; just force the phone companies to cut the phone connection to any handset moving at over an arbitrary speed (say, 30 MPH) unless it is on or near the line of a railway.
Mobiles againDriving home about 2pm today (Friday) - and its quite busy on one of the main roads...
Quick, easy technical fix. Yes, it means pbuttengers cannot use mobiles, but it solves the main problem and takes the pressure off police.
A similar sort of quick, techno-fix could be done for the upcoming legislation to ban gatso-radar detection devices. Instead of trying (and probably failing) to ban the things, why not make small radar-emitters that mimic the radar output of live Gatsos (without actually doing any sensing) and install them in all non-live Gatso emplacements?
All of a sudden nobody but the police will know which are live and which aren't, the police burden of enforcing a moronic rule is averted, and the people who possess radar detectors will either have to obey them all the time (win for the police) or ignore-guess (eventual driving ban for idiots). Oh, and this is the cheap option, too.
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