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- cross-posted to:
- kentucky@lemmy.world
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A) how was this not illegal yet
B) $100 fine is an insult to anyone not in a car. That is fuck all in fines compared to the severity of consequences distracted driving can cause.
Ontario is $615, or $1000 if you try and fight it, but since 2020, police stopped enforcing.
Also 3 demerit points and 3 days licence suspension, huge hit on insurance.
Second conviction, $2000 and 6 points, 7 day suspension
Third conviction, $3000, 6 points and 30 day suspension, and insurnace will cancel and force you to a predatory insurer for 5 years.
All bullshit, no one gets charged.
It’s €350 in the Netherlands, but it is also enforced. There’s special camera’s on highwats to detect for phone use. If you use a phone while riding a bicycle, that’s €140. That one isn’t enforced as much (but I’ve seen plenty of teenager get one), but I think its good that the fine exists.
Ontario couldn’t even put speed cameras in school zones without drivers claiming “unfair fines”, “tax on driving”, “it’s not legitmate if it wasn’t a cop”, and “this is an attack on our freedom of mobility”.
“Tax on driving” sounds like a good idea, imho. Use the proceedings for public transport
Right, what a bunch of snowflakes. Don’t speed and it’s not a problem. Fucking conservatives.
“All bullshit, no one gets charged.” BINGO, got to use police & authorities to keep the poor in line.
If no one is getting charged, then how are they targeting the poor?
Simple, look it up, when they are issuing tickets, what percentage are Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners & Poor Economic Class/Employees?
I know they are sending out tickets to violators, if they were not media would all over it, especially outside The USA. When I still drove, many years ago, have had violated the traffic laws & had Red Light Camera catch me once & then had them issue me a traffic ticket, when it was not my vehicle, because the processing corporation suck so bad, not even on the same coast of The USA!
I agree the fine should a lot more expensive.
Its currently allowed?!
What? This was allowed till now anywhere? You guys are messed up
In what backwards shithole was this still legal?
Ooh…only 10+ years behind the curve. Kentucky playing down to expectations.
2000&late
It should also include all other devices that use The Internet. That is the improvement to these laws.
It is definitely not illegal, regulate dangerous behaviors, over huge parasitic profits. Done to drunk drivers that cannot stop, with the breathalyzers on steering wheels.
This long overdue, been due able forever, I been thinking this should happen for decades.
But will it be enforced?
This is bullshit, Telcos could easily disable texting and driving. They could tell who is driving looking at the 6 axis movement data.
the 30 people on the bus: “what?”
What if you’re a passenger? But also how could they enforce it if you’re just using data through a chat app? If they disable data, that means they also disable maps and navigation.
Why would the passengers need to not use cellphones?
Well exactly, but they’d have the same movement as the driver
“but they’d have the same movement as the driver” What?
In case you’re serious. The comment I was replying to suggested that telecom companies could disable texting by detecting who is driving using the phone’s movement data. But that movement data will be the same for the driver and the passengers, so they only show that you are in a vehicle, not necessarily driving. So using this would also block texting for passengers which doesn’t make any sense.
Yeah, I was serious, I just did think the other person was that questionable with his thinking, trying not to insult that person.
I ride the bus. How would it tell the difference between me, and a driver? Or a passenger of a car someone else is driving?
