Road toll - Police stupid obsession blaming speed

[Daffyd]

Touch pad infotainment systems aren't going to improve matters either.

[scumdog]

My gut feeling is that its not the ones driving newer cars you need to watch out for.
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Dunno about that - I know of an incident or two caused by incompetents adjusting shit on the touch screen in the centre of the dash

They have to look 'cos no buttons to do it by touch.

[rastuscat]

Touch pad infotainment systems aren't going to improve matters either.

Plus 4 million.

It's against the law to play with your phone, but plenty legal to spend as much time as you like playing with your in-car infotainment system.

Dumb rules.

Followed a bloke the other day watching the Argentina FIFA football game on a tablet on his dashboard. Sheesh.

[JimO]

Plus 4 million.

It's against the law to play with your phone, but plenty legal to spend as much time as you like playing with your in-car infotainment system.

Dumb rules.

Followed a bloke the other day watching the Argentina FIFA football game on a tablet on his dashboard. Sheesh.

who was winning?

[Scuba_Steve]

Plus 4 million.

It's against the law to play with your phone, but plenty legal to spend as much time as you like playing with your in-car infotainment system.

Dumb rules.

Followed a bloke the other day watching the Argentina FIFA football game on a tablet on his dashboard. Sheesh.

Have they changed the rules surrounding things like screens in latter years? It used to be something like it was unlawful to have a TV useable/seeable by the driver when driving [paraphrased/simple speak]
Has this rule been abolished to allow new tech, overlooked in the rise of new tech, or am I just remembering things wrong all together?

[awayatc]

Back in the day... (80's) it was against the law in Greece to have a radio in the car!...
(And to smoke in your car ....)

[Daffyd]

Have they changed the rules surrounding things like screens in latter years? It used to be something like it was unlawful to have a TV useable/seeable by the driver when driving [paraphrased/simple speak]
Has this rule been abolished to allow new tech, overlooked in the rise of new tech, or am I just remembering things wrong all together?

You're quite right, It was illegal to have a TV screen where a driver could see it. AFAIK that law has never been rescinded.

[granstar]

Back in the day... (80's) it was against the law in Greece to have a radio in the car!...
(And to smoke in your car ....)

In the 70's you had to turn the radio up to drown out the diff noise. It was the car that smoked...badly. Those old Vauxhalls were great!

[YellowDog]

Touch pad infotainment systems aren't going to improve matters either.

I have a 10.5" 4G Andriod device in my dash. Live TV, YouTube, Porno, the lot.

Has a radio too, me thinks

Helps improve my driving, no end

[Scuba_Steve]

You're quite right, It was illegal to have a TV screen where a driver could see it. AFAIK that law has never been rescinded.

Well found a rule with a quickish search

2.5 Televisions in motor vehicles

2.5(1) Except as provided in 2.5(2), any part of the image on a
television screen fitted in a motor vehicle must not be visible to
the driver of the motor vehicle from his or her normal driving
position while the motor vehicle is in motion.
2.5(2) Subclause 2.5(1) does not apply if:
(a) the television screen is fitted in the motor vehicle only for
the purpose of assisting the driver to reverse safely, by
showing a clear picture of the area directly behind the
motor vehicle; or
(b) the motor vehicle is a passenger service vehicle and the
provisions of Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service
Vehicles 1999 are complied with; or
(c) the screen is designed so that only information relating to
the navigation, safe operation and control of the motor
vehicle can be displayed on the screen while the motor
vehicle is in motion; or
(d) the screen is only capable of displaying text and any
change to the text on the screen is controlled manually by
the driver.

Legality of infotainment systems it seems would largely depend on what they define as a "TV" (I can't find a legal or made-up NZTA definition of "TV")

[eldog]

In the 70's you had to turn the radio up to drown out the diff noise. It was the car that smoked...badly. Those old Vauxhalls were great!

Vauxhall Viva

no heating or air con
lights could be on full all day, no one would notice.
performance none could beat.
Don’t remember a radio.
went past an old Vauxhall factory while in UK, no wonder they were a performance machine...

[Daffyd]

Well found a rule with a quickish search



Legality of infotainment systems it seems would largely depend on what they define as a "TV" (I can't find a legal or made-up NZTA definition of "TV")

I guess since an infotainment system is more than just a TV, it could be argued that it's a driver aid.

[Daffyd]

Vauxhall Viva

no heating or air con
lights could be on full all day, no one would notice.
performance none could beat.
Don’t remember a radio.

I bought a new Viva wagon in 1970. It had been 'done up' as a demonstrator, so had a heater, carpets & wheel trims. I had to buy a radio for it as I would be doing weekly return trips from Invercargill to Queenstown, solo. Even had to get a Radio Dealer's Licence So they would sell it to me!

[AllanB]

Used car sales used to have window cards loudly portraying the vehichle in question had:

Heater
Mudflaps
5 Speed (this was big!)


Now it's all:

Bluetooth
Autowank this and autowank that
Heated seats
Anti fun this and Anti fun that

[Laava]

Used car sales used to have window cards loudly portraying the vehichle in question had:

Heater
Mudflaps
5 Speed (this was big!)


Now it's all:

Bluetooth
Autowank this and autowank that
Heated seats
Anti fun this and Anti fun that

Wait, what, autowank? Tell me more!