It is not only in Denmark that it is illegal to sing with a hand-held phone. In the USA, monitoring is now being introduced in light regulation.
The monitoring is on its way. In fact, it is already here. And especially in traffic.
Here at home, the police have several of the so-called number plate cameras – ANPG systems – both on patrol cars and fixed in traffic.
In the US, however, they go a step further and let intelligent signs monitor certain drivers. That kind of sign already exists in cities like Seattle and Washington.
This is written by the public service medium National Public Radio .
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According to the city councils, which have put the signs into use, the technology in the signs can see if motorists are talking on a hand-held phone, honking too loudly, and tell the motorists to put the phone down.
On the other hand, motorists who drive past the signs without doing anything wrong get a smiley face on the road. Who knows who might use it for something.
According to a new report from Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which monitors driver behavior for US insurance companies, mobile use behind the wheel is a growing problem.
The same is actually the case here at home, although the offense does not only cost a contribution to the treasury.
Since 2019, Danish drivers have otherwise not only received a ticket for talking on a hand-held mobile phone behind the wheel. It has also cost them a cut in the choir card ever since.
The National Police's own figures for 2021, which FDM has obtained access to, show that 23,376 drivers had received a ticket for hand-held mobile use behind the wheel.
And although the punishment is severe at home, it is nothing compared to the punishment further north. In Norway, the booth for talking on a handheld mobile was set up with several thousand kroner at the beginning of 2023. Read more here .
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