Good! We don't need more drivers being distracted thus making them stupider than they already are. I cannot believe what I see drivers doing on the road nowadays!

As a professional driver I hope she doesn't get away with it and hope there is a rewrite to fix that hole. Distracted drivers are by the far the worst on the road. Even drunks are safer. Proven scientifically as well.

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That won't save her.

It's intended to cover the use of reversing cameras/rear view cameras ...

In America you would be surprised by what can happen with our laws.

I guess that once again, the people enforcing these laws will be exempted from them 

Nine crashes a day caused by police - Exclusive
Shocking figures reveal how careless police driving is putting public at risk

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nine-crashes-a-day-caused-by-police-789745

Met police has twelve traffic accidents EVERY DAY - killing five pedestrians and a cyclist in last three years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342723/Met-police-traffic-accidents-day-Six-people-killed-years.html#ixzz2jJQah88n 

And it’s not the only case. The I-Team found 155 major accidents where Houston police were at fault between 2008 and 2012. The reasons include running red lights, stop signs, speeding, and just failing to use common caution.

But how many times did an officer get ticketed? Absolutely zero.

http://www.khou.com/news/ITeamHPDAccidents-149102875.html

When it comes to the bottom line, at the end of the day, society will always need to protect some of it's people from themselves.  Just the way it is, been that way since the beginning of time.

Unfortunately no laws, rules or such that anyone can come up with will be able to fix STUPID.

Society should never protect people from themselves.  The problem is when you're some dumb broad in a ton of metal flying around at 60mph, it's not a matter of protecting you from yourself.

When you kill yourself being stupid, you probably involved someone else in your suicide.  Every now and then we get lucky and some moron wastes themselves on a light post or a tree when they were doing something really stupid while driving, even the odd brick wall.  Most of the time, the fatalities involve pedestrians, or other vehicles.

The world's most incurable disease.

That's why we have the 'Darwin Awards'...

So Johnny is stupid so that means I can be stupid to. Just because a cop does not follow the rules does not mean we can get on the road and put every one else in danger because we want to prove a point. That does not even make any since. Cops are just like everyone else there are a few bad apples in every bunch. No one needs to be reminded of that. 

Back to the story. The woman needs a big fine. It seems some people just do not care about putting others in danger. All they think about is them self's

  racist, sexist  and other 19th century behaviour is discouraged

Police have their own rules to follow, obviously.  When situations arise they are fully entitled to exceed speed limits etc and exceed/break other civil traffic laws - but are still typically held accountable.  Whether or not their 'advanced driver training' is sufficient is of course debatable.

I remember endangering myself on a 4-lane freeway removing boxes strewn accross the road - a particularly dangerous potential hazard [ one semi almost jack-knifed avoiding them...and a taxi hit one] while calling triple zero [911] for police response.  When he turned up we'd cleared the boxes...and I told him it's OK...we're racing officials...used to being in high-speed traffic...and he simply replied 'oh yes....and all these drivers THINK they are as good as Schumacher too'.

They aren't, btw...

In Ammurrika, intent has little (if anything) to do with the application of laws.  Or the avoidance thereof.  We have special people here to see to it - lawyers.  Or, as they say in Ireland, liars.

Google's lawyers will be lining up for this one. This is as much bad publicity as it is reduced utility of their product. There needs to be a forced off-switch while driving, although how can they possibly implement that?