The Commons Transport committee is focused on banning all phone usage in cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think first we need to address the many who continue to use phones without using any form of hands free mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was at a local petrol station recently picking up a parcel from the Amazon locker when a Range Rover went past with the driver holding his phone in his left hand and steering with his right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’d not been on the phone myself, I was standing and away from my car, before any questions arise, I would have taken a photo and tried to report. But without that evidence, it would have been my word against his…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s focus on the right priorities – and fund the police to address them – before taking extra steps that given where we are going with autonomous vehicles will have a limited window of opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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