Thread: Tougher penalties for using mobile phones when driving
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Old 20-09-2016, 10:00   #24
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Re: Tougher penalties for using mobile phones when driving
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Originally Posted by Derek View Post
They are one-way radios and exempt, same as CB radios and similar.

Besides unless you make double crewed cars mandatory for Police and paramedics then you need to find some way to be able to talk to them as they blue light to an emergency call.
Vox & throat mic or similar.

Arguably the radios are just as distracting as a phone, you're still holding a piece of plastic you talk into on a radio as a phone. It's a stupid exemption and we do now have the technology to make the exemption obsolete.

I'm not condoning the mobile phone law - I think it's sensible, I do however also believe there's no real difference between a radio or a phone on loudspeaker and both should be banned.

I'm reasonably sure as Jo Public if I was to drive about holding a walkie talkie or some such, I'd be done for undue care or similar.
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