Thais warned! You can't use your phone while driving even when stopped in traffic or at the lights

[webfact]

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Thailand's Anti-Fake News Center warned the public that using a phone or communication device while driving is illegal and warrants a 400-1000 baht fine.

 

The only exception is using something like Small Talk or Bluetooth.

 

Even when stopped in traffic or at red lights it is illegal to call out or answer your phone, play games or text, reported Siam Rath.

 

You are driving and the engine is on even though you are not moving, said the media.

 

You should  go to a gas station or park somewhere if you need to use the phone. 

 

Looking at online information is also a no-no while driving. 

 

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[Mr Meeseeks]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

You are driving and the engine is on even though you are not moving, said the media.

In my Benz the engine turns off automatically whenever I stop the vehicle to save on emissions.

 

Does this mean I can still play with my phone?

[Ralf001]

In one of my cars I installed a 10" Samsung Tablet as the entertainment head unit.

What phone ? !!

[smedly]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's Anti-Fake News Center warned the public that using a phone or communication device while driving is illegal and warrants a 400-1000 baht fine.

this is a serious crime as recognized in developed countries and is the primary cause of many serious accidents and fatalities on the roads, it is right up there with DUI, then you have speeding and reckless driving, behind it all is lack of proper law enforcement 

[Geoffggi]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's Anti-Fake News Center warned the public that using a phone or communication device while driving is illegal and warrants a 400-1000 baht fine.

This has to be fake news, it is hard to spot anyone driving cars or riding bikes who is not on the phone these days .......................LOL

[Enzian]

We were doing estate planning and my daughter-in-law said that if my son dies before me the reason will be his constant habit of texting while driving.

[userabcd]

Mobile phones should be banned from motorvehicles altogether.

[smedly]

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

In one of my cars I installed a 10" Samsung Tablet as the entertainment head unit.

What phone ? !!

laws have to make sense, there should be no need to touch a phone when driving - calls only hands free with integrated BT, surfing Facebook or messaging is very obviously problematic

[Guderian]

If this is the case then there's no point in pulling over and stopping to take a phone call, which is what I always do, now I may as well just take the call while I'm driving since the penalty will be the same in the unlikely event that a cop, who's not checking out his phone while on his motorbike, spots me.

[richard_smith237]

A nation which remains unable to effectively enforce helmet laws is going to struggle with enforcing no-phone use in cars.....  that’s simply a step of proactiveness too far....   

 

... well, any proactiveness is a step too far for Thailand really....

 

Yes... that is a Thai-bash... I’m not ashamed of it, its wholly deserved.

 

 

[KannikaP]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

and warrants a 400-1000 baht fine.

So much?   LOL   555

[Damrongsak]

i have no interest in talking on the phone, especially a mobile.  I've had a land line home phone for maybe 25 years.  My I phone 6 was given to me, and I don't answer it if I'm driving.   I never text, as my fingers are not compatible with the damned touch keypad on these silly phones.

 

Years back when I was a salesman on the road I would have loved them.  Now I have no need or desire. 

[KannikaP]

9 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Mobile phones should be banned from motorvehicles altogether.

Rubbish. mine is Bluetoothed to the radio, answers automatically, no hands needed.

It's probably more dangerous/distracting following Google Maps than having a phone conversation.

[djayz]

Jing law?

[WorriedNoodle]

22 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's Anti-Fake News Center warned the public that using a phone or communication device while driving is illegal and warrants a 400-1000 baht fine.

Isn't the Anti-Fake News what we used to refer to as news in the old days? That's like a 300% increase in carbon footprint by their unnecessarily convoluted long name?

[JonnyF]

They should probably go after the Grab riders weaving through traffic one handed while checking their phones before they worry about people who are stationary and waiting at a red light.

[userabcd]

12 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Rubbish. mine is Bluetoothed to the radio, answers automatically, no hands needed.

It's probably more dangerous/distracting following Google Maps than having a phone conversation.

And while talking on the phone or press a button to accept the bluetooth call one is distracted from concentrating only on the public road.

 

Communication devices should be banned from vehicles as all humans are incapable of complying with the rules and laws.

Edited January 26, 2022 by userabcd

[actonion]

You may as well tell them you must stop at a Red traffic light....... flogging a dead horse...Another rule to sweep under the carpet

[Moonlover]

26 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

15 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Mobile phones should be banned from motorvehicles altogether.

 

26 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Rubbish. mine is Bluetoothed to the radio, answers automatically, no hands needed.

It's probably more dangerous/distracting following Google Maps than having a phone conversation.

This is called 'distracted driving' and has been shown to be just as dangerous as using a handheld set. The driver's mind should be 100% on the task of driving.

 

I agree with @userabcd, their use should be banned altogether.

 

Edited January 26, 2022 by Moonlover
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[JoePai]

37 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

In my Benz the engine turns off automatically whenever I stop the vehicle to save on emissions.

 

Does this mean I can still play with my phone?

You can play with yourself if that makes you feel better

[law ling]

Not sure I understand the exceptions: "Small Talk or Bluetooth".

 

Why prohibit navigation apps that call out the directions? 

[Dmaxdan]

The other side of the coin with this is drivers slamming on their brakes stopping in highly dangerous situations just to answer their phone.

[KannikaP]

9 minutes ago, userabcd said:

And while talking on the phone or press a button to accept the bluetooth call one is distracted from concentrating only on the public road.

 

Communication devices should be banned from vehicles as all humans are incapable of complying with the rules and laws.

I did say that mine answers automatically, so no button-pressing. And talking to any passengers is probably just as distracting from concentrating on that public road.

Is changing stations on an online radio app classed as 'using a phone whilst driving'?

[Eff1n2ret]

But it doesn't apply to motor-cyclists.

[jonclark]

Well that seems to screw all grab, food panda, robin hood etc drivers as the are constantly using their phones while moving..some even have nice little umbrellas to keep to rain and sunshine off the screens. 

[KannikaP]

10 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I agree with @KannikaP, their use should be banned altogether

It wasn't me, it was userabcd ( imaginative user name!)

 

If the phone is Bluetoothed to the radio, answers automatically, then I think it's OK. Most, if not all, car radios and phones have this facility these days.

[Ralf001]

41 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Mobile phones should be banned from motorvehicles altogether.

Should we send them to our destination via courier ?

[Moonlover]

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I did say that mine answers automatically, so no button-pressing. And talking to any passengers is probably just as distracting from concentrating on that public road.

Is changing stations on an online radio app classed as 'using a phone whilst driving'?

Yes, yes and yes. They all come under the classification of 'distracted driving'.

 

Distractions whilst driving.

[userabcd]

8 minutes ago, Eff1n2ret said:

But it doesn't apply to motor-cyclists.

It should, the other day standing on the sidewalk in phrakanong observed a foreigner on a motorcycle turning out of one of the small sois, he had a baby in the crook of his left arm and was holding a mobile phone in his right fingers whilst manipulating the accelerator, the lady on the pillion seat was looking at her phone...and on all of them not a helmet in sight.

 

Just downright criminal.

Edited January 26, 2022 by userabcd

[Moonlover]

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

It wasn't me, it was userabcd ( imaginative user name!)

 

If the phone is Bluetoothed to the radio, answers automatically, then I think it's OK. Most, if not all, car radios and phones have this facility these days.

Spotted and corrected, but I still disagree with you as you can see above.