Hand held mobile phone use penalty to rise in 2017 [Merged]

ROG:
I was hoping the law would change to a more common sense approach - no mobile phone use of any kind unless vehicle stationary with handbrake applied

Why would this be a more common sense approach?
As the article and Mazzer said there aren’t the police out there to detect hand held use, let alone hands free. How are the police going to detect that, by seeing your lips moving when driving? If they did they’d be wasting a lot of time stopping people singing or talking to themselves.

And there are laws that already deal with people who’s driving is distracted, whether they are using a hand held or hands free or just not concentrating for other reasons, but again as this can’t be detected by cameras and there aren’t the police patrols the culprates have very little chance of being caught.

Will these new penalties work, well looking at the graph, maybe for ashore while, but then as the impact and publicity of the new penalties dies down and the actual risk of being caught remains low, the use of hand held phones will creep again.