Off topic new driving law

[TOM4CWB]

There’s hardly anyone on the roads and streets any more.

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Soon only 'legal' to " 'drive'" a Tesla self driving car in cities?

Covid-19 made more 'changes' in a year than decades preceding...

How soon Will they monitor drivers tractors and combines... [will need a special licence and learners permit with graduated farm operating permit]?

Stats Canada now after capacity of each of our grain bins... and how full they are...! After us for calling 2 months 7 days a week....Feds $1K fines since 2015 for not 'giving info...I don't answer land line... get rid of it?

Insanity...

[Guest]

I told the stupid idiots I was out of the country

[blackpowder]

Smoking in the car is illegal if some passengers are children under 16 I think in many countries, for health reasons. Smoking while driving should be illegal regardless
Its a worse impediment than eating or drinking I think. Many vehicles haven't had ashtrays for years now. So that means no more cup holders?

Smoking while driving should be illegal eh?
Does your wife mind that you can't kiss and duck at the same time?
Either way, more for the enforcing officer's discretion.

[blackpowder]

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Soon only 'legal' to " 'drive'" a Tesla self driving car in cities?

Covid-19 made more 'changes' in a year than decades preceding...

How soon Will they monitor drivers tractors and combines... [will need a special licence and learners permit with graduated farm operating permit]?

Stats Canada now after capacity of each of our grain bins... and how full they are...! After us for 2 months 7 calling days a week....

Insanity...

Tom, I haven't responded to them in 5 years now.
If the fine only $450, cheap.
Best money spent on useless land line number.
Seems more to that story though.
Better yet, pay an annual fee for our inventory to be instantly updated in cloud, with all financials?
Good luck.

[LEP]

I live in town and drive 15 miles to the farm. Depending on the need for parts, I might make that trip a couple more times a day. Atleast half of the drivers I meet on the road are looking down at their phone.

I was thinking of installing a train airhorn on my work truck and when I meet someone with their eyes looking down, give them a blast.

Wake them up to the task at hand.

[Sheepwheat]

Ever seen the Mr Bean episode with him being late and dressing in the car ? Priceless !

Yes. Was thinking of him when I posted that.

He passed.

[Blaithin]

Distracted driving law here has been in force a few years now (includes food and drink) Surprisingly hasn't affected drive through volume. I have no concerns about safety while I'm eating but most of the population cant handle driving safely with both hands on the wheel.

Was a case in the news of a woman fighting her ticket that got a fair bit of media attention because she felt it was her right, not sure how it turned out. She was eating hot soup, one hand holding the bowl, the other holding the spoon.

Food and drink is at the officers discretion isn't it? Or something like that. It’s not an out and out ban on eating and drinking. But if you’re driving erratically and showing signs of being distracted you can get a ticket.

On the phone is a ticket no matter what.

I think back over the years and how many people I’ve heard of die because they were reaching for a CD on the passenger side and crashed or over corrected and crashed. CDs may be one of the most lethal things considering they weren’t really around for that long.

[Toast]

Food and drink is at the officers discretion isn't it? Or something like that. It’s not an out and out ban on eating and drinking. But if you’re driving erratically and showing signs of being distracted you can get a ticket.

On the phone is a ticket no matter what.

I think back over the years and how many people I’ve heard of die because they were reaching for a CD on the passenger side and crashed or over corrected and crashed. CDs may be one of the most lethal things considering they weren’t really around for that long.

No...Vanity mirrors on sunvisors while at the wheel is much more ominous.
Gotta look purdy .

[foragefarmer]

I live in town and drive 15 miles to the farm. Depending on the need for parts, I might make that trip a couple more times a day. Atleast half of the drivers I meet on the road are looking down at their phone.

I was thinking of installing a train airhorn on my work truck and when I meet someone with their eyes looking down, give them a blast.

Wake them up to the task at hand.

In cases like that their not even going the speed limit either, meaning tailgating starts happening.

Lep, the horn is a great idea, as when I pass driver's texting while driving that's what they get from me, the horn

That's the reason why texting or talking on the cell phone is illegal here in Manitoba, they cause accidents.

Anybody thinking they have the ability to do so and still drive effectively is only fooling themselves.

[Blaithin]

No...Vanity mirrors on sunvisors when females are at the wheel is much more ominous.

I’ve never heard of a fatal crash from the use of a vanity mirror.

For that matter, I can’t think of one friend that uses them and who’s wouldn’t be covered in a giant layer of dust.

Considering that roughly 50% of drivers are women and pretty much every vehicle has a vanity mirror (or equally useable rear view mirror), then if femme fatales using mirrors were such an issue, there’d be issues all the time. In fact, 50% of drivers wouldn’t be women because we’d be weeding ourselves out.

Can’t fix stupid so there’s always some outliers.

Yet for some reason... vehicle insurance is higher for men...

Stupid clause isn’t really applied automatically to female drivers. We have to earn it 😜

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Anybody thinking they have the ability to do so and still drive effectively is only fooling themselves.

Most of us farmers and truck drivers seem to believe we possess some superhuman multitasking driving abilities.
I expect we are completely delusional in that belief.
Have there been any studies to indicate otherwise?

Does bouncing along in a tractor with 50+ feet of implement (or 2 or 3) running 6" from a fence or treeline (or cow), while watching and adjusting multiple monitors and levers, on the phone with a bowl of cereal in the other hand, dusty windows, the sun in your eyes, No sleep for three nights, 3 extra kids crammed in, and stress levels through the roof from reading agriville with the remaining hand, really make us better over the road drivers capable of multitasking?
Or just really dangerously overconfident hazards on the road?

I think I know the answer.

[dmlfarmer]

I know after finishing harvest each fall, I am a much poorer driver the first few times I go into town or city. Lots of rolling stops at stop signs just as I am used to doing all fall at rural intersections with loaded grain trucks. In much more of a hurry to get somewhere, just as I was for 2 months or so to get back to the combines/bins. Lot less patience of others on the road. It takes real effort to break bad driving habits I have gotten into each fall when other traffic other than equipment in the fields is rare. The distractions, like using a cell phone, while bouncing across a field at 20 mph with no other traffic is not equivalent to texting on a highway and so that means shutting off the phone completely right after harvest while driving so I am not tempted or in the habit of responding.