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| Subject: Rights violation: OZschwitz pigs to serf-drivers: if your phone is not in an approved cradle, don't use it Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:08 pm | |
| Young Australian drivers are taking part in a dangerous craze of taking "selfies" while behind the wheel, prompting harsh warnings from the police and government.
There are more than 4.5 million posts on Instagram tagged with #driving, nearly 527,000 tagged with #carselfie, 20,000 with #drivingselfie and more than 78,000 for #drivinghome.
The trend has become so prevalent that the NSW government included it in their recent "Get Your Hands Off It" advertising campaign, featuring a young driver taking an Instagram shot of his latte while cruising through country NSW.
"We know it's a prevalent activity, we know young people are glued to their phones, we know selfies are prevalent but it's just crazy behaviour, it's ridiculous," Marg Prendergast, general manager of the NSW Centre for Road Safety, said.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/no-likes-for-selfies-while-driving-20141025-11ba22.html |
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