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Roman @ Mar 12th 2008 8:52AM
Fcking pathetic if they make a big deal out of this. Tonnes and tonnes of people drive and phone occasionally.
And some old cars don't have a carkit, and sometimes you have to use the phone and drive. Big deal. I do it all the time as well.
Instead of focusing on left lane hoggers, people that drive so slow it causes traffic jams etc.
Ridiculous.
Gregg @ Mar 12th 2008 8:58AM
You have no idea how badly you drive when you are on that phone. THAT is the problem.
Dazza @ Mar 12th 2008 9:20AM
Roman: Pathetic eh? Not only is driving using a mobile considered to be "driving without due care and attention" in the UK and usually warrants 3-4 points and carries a £400 fine, it's also extremely dangerous - this activity has caused countless accidents, especially with the kind of traffic volumes Britain has on its roads these days.
Furthermore, a public figure of Clarkson's stature, a motoring journalist figurehead who is notoriously opinionated about the automotive industry and an advocate of the freedom that driving brings should really know better than to perform acts that his audience would be lawbreakers in repeating.
So yes, it's a very big deal.
Andrew @ Mar 12th 2008 9:48AM
You guys are a bunch of ferries, the same bunch who were hallway monitors in elementary school. Get a life.
Gregg @ Mar 12th 2008 10:03AM
Ferries, Andrew? Did you even go to school?
John @ Mar 12th 2008 10:13AM
Oh look, it's the typical British overreaction to everything.
I used to think this country had gone nuts and become the ultimate RULES and Nanny state until I spent a summer in England.
I was never so happy to be back in the States than I was after that trip.
(Though I have to admit, short of encountering roundabouts on the Motorways and dodging speed cameras, it was about as close to long-distance driving nirvana as I'd ever encountered. British drivers on the Motorways were much better than any drivers on US interstates)
Mel. R @ Mar 12th 2008 12:11PM
So let's get this straight... it's IS a big deal if a driver uses his cell phone (which takes a hand away from the driver) while driving, but it IS NOT a big deal if a driver uses the camera on his phone (which takes not only a and away, but the eyes as well) while driving? Because that is obviously what happened to get this photo. Smacks of hypocrisy, if you ask me. Two wrongs don't make a right.
And since when was "a man of his position like Clarkson" supposed to be responsible for how I drive? Last I checked, I (like most of you) was still an individual with my own moral and decision making compass, not a sheep who did something because everyone else was doing it, or I saw someone who the masses has declared an authority on a particular subject.
meshies @ Mar 12th 2008 1:48PM
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Andrew u summed it up perfect. Im gonna steal that phrase. The true herbs and ferries are most of the members on thecarlounge.