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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
...Obviously if you have or cause an accident while sipping a drink or eating something then you will be charged, but the same is true if that happens because you are changing stations on your car radio, or tapping your sat nav, it's all about being in control. Moving off from being parked while doing any of these things will mean you are not fully in control, whereas driving along on the motorway sipping a coffee doesn't mean you aren't in control - though you may take you eye of the road and drift into another lane while putting your cup down in the cup holder and then you're in trouble!...
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It is good to see that there is at least one other person around here who has overtly shown that they understand what Situational Awareness and Spatial Awareness are and so are capable of making considered safe decisions appropriate to the circumstances.
Those incapable of making such decisions are a danger because while they may have inflexible rules for themselves to get over the incapability, sooner or later they will find they do not have a rule to cover a situation they find themselves in and end up involved in an otherwise avoidable fault or no fault accident.
A related thing that I do (having been exposed to both Bridge and Flight Deck Resource Management) is ask my front seat passenger to do things for me or bounce off them things like "Do you think he is going to stop?" I do this on my yacht too, even with inexperienced sailors for things they can be relied upon. I am happy to put their opinion with respect to a situation into the mix.