Driving at high speed, drinking water, smoking, eat areca and chewing gum while driving, is it illegal?

Tell a true joke. Some time ago, I watched the news and saw a driver driving with a cigarette in his mouth, which was photographed by a traffic camera. After investigation, I found that this was a big misunderstanding. The so-called driving with a cigarette is actually white bird droppings on the windshield of a car. From the traffic camera's point of view, this white bird droppings was projected on the driver's mouth.

Traffic cameras don't care that much. It's really a coincidence that they shot when they found out that they violated the rules. It is estimated that the driver is also very upset after receiving this violation. It is not clear whether he jumped into the Yellow River. If the camera is high definition, you can see if the driver really smokes if you enlarge the image.

It can be seen from this story that smoking while driving is illegal. Generally, 2 points will be deducted and 200 yuan will be fined. This has a legal basis. Its legal basis is the Regulations for the Implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China. According to paragraph 3 of Article 62 of this Ordinance:

Driving a motor vehicle shall not commit any of the following acts: (3) Making and receiving hand-held phone calls, watching TV and other acts that hinder safe driving.

Driving a motor vehicle here refers to driving on any road, including highways, national highways, provincial highways, county roads, township roads and urban roads. As long as you drive, you can't have behaviors that hinder safe driving. Here are two obvious examples:

First, you can't make or receive hand-held calls. Let me emphasize here that it is a hand-held phone. If you use a Bluetooth phone to make and receive calls, it is legal. It is illegal to drive with one hand if you answer the phone with one hand.

Second, you can't watch TV. Obviously, this is also an illegal act. Watching TV without looking at the road is a serious violation and irresponsible for life.

Note that only two kinds of behaviors that hinder safe driving are listed in the legal provisions, because there are too many behaviors of people to list them all. The word "etc" in the Regulations also indicates other acts that are not listed. For example, smoking is also an act that hinders safe driving, and it is also an illegal act, and a fine will be deducted.

So what other behaviors hinder safe driving?

1. Eating behavior: eating, drinking, eat areca, chewing gum.

Driving on the highway will inevitably make you thirsty or hungry. On the premise of ensuring safety, almost every driver has done it occasionally. In addition, driving on the highway is easy to get sleepy. In order to refresh themselves, some people will eat areca and chew gum to refresh themselves, so as to eliminate fatigue.

But this kind of eating and drinking is illegal, because by definition, it hinders safe driving. Like drinking water. If it is mineral water, you have to unscrew the bottle cap. It usually takes two hands to unscrew the bottle cap. I tried it myself. At that time, I was holding mineral water in my left hand, holding the steering wheel at the same time, and screwing the bottle cap while driving in my right hand.

This action is not complicated, but it is really dangerous, which hinders driving safety, because no one knows whether something will happen at the moment you screw the bottle cap. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of 10 thousand, you are afraid of one thousand. Many accidents happened at this time. If you twist the bottle cap, the steering wheel will be tilted by you, and the car will be tilted, which may lead to an accident. At high speed, the speed is very fast, which is an act that hinders driving safety.

For example, eat areca and chewing gum, betel nut and chewing gum are all packaged, especially betel nut, which is generally packaged in a single vacuum. If you want to tear betel nuts, you have to use two hands. This time is the same as the moment when you drink water and twist the bottle cap. There are also risks. It may be troublesome to tear the gum package with one hand and it will distract the driver. Therefore, these two behaviors are behaviors that hinder driving safety and are illegal.

If you say that there are other waiters in the car to help the driver eat, for example, the person in the passenger cab has screwed on the bottle cap to feed the driver with water. When drinking water, the driver will raise his head before drinking, and then keep his eyes on the road. I will try this action, and at the end, my sight will be much narrower. If there is sudden behavior, it is easy to have accidents.

Hey, so is the driver. Eating will not hinder driving safety, but if you feed the driver this action, it will distract the driver and affect driving safety, which is also illegal.

2. Entertainment behavior: playing mobile phones, playing video games and playing other things.

This kind of behavior is more dangerous than eating, drinking and drinking. It is often seen in the news that some drivers play mobile phones while driving, and then traffic accidents suddenly occur. The speed on the expressway is very fast. When the vehicle speed is 100 km/h, 1 sec, the vehicle will move forward 27.8 meters, and after driving blindly for 2-3 seconds, the vehicle will move forward 70-80 meters. If there is an obstacle ahead, it will hit it.

Playing mobile phones and video games completely keeps your eyes off the road, and staring at mobile phones and video games for 2~3 seconds or more every time is equivalent to driving blindly. This behavior is very dangerous. Even if you don't have an accident now, you will have an accident in the future, and it is a very serious accident, so this kind of behavior is 100% illegal.

3. Look around: look at the dashboard, the navigation, the scenery and the beautiful women.

Driving at high speed, under normal circumstances, look straight at the road ahead, look at the left and right rearview mirrors every once in a while, and get to know the road conditions around your car. This is the most basic operation, but when someone is driving, they always look around. For example, some people always look at the dashboard to see the speed, always look at the navigation when they don't know the way, or look at the scenery, beautiful women, other cars on the road and so on.

This behavior is also an obstacle to safe driving, because your eyes are off the road, which creates risks. When each driver takes the third test, you still remember that one of the test requirements is: keep your eyes off the road for 2 seconds, or you will lose points. The purpose of this requirement is to standardize driving behavior and cultivate correct driving habits.

Some people say that they don't know the way and how to drive without looking at the navigation. In fact, safe driving behavior is listening to navigation, which will tell you whether to go straight or turn, without looking at it at all. Seeing the scenery and beautiful women will also make drivers leave the road for a long time, which will also cause danger, so it is also illegal.

4. Other behaviors that hinder driving safety: rubbing your eyes, picking up things, making videos, and fighting with people.

I have a colleague who is nearsighted and wears glasses. He was driving downtown and his eyes itched, so he rubbed them casually. Tears came out and blocked his eyes. I guess he didn't look at the road and chased the car in front. Finally, the traffic police sentenced him to full responsibility, so rubbing his eyes while driving is an act that hinders driving safety and is also illegal.

This kind of illegal behavior also includes picking up things. I saw a news before that a young driver's mobile phone fell under the seat. He bent down to pick up his mobile phone while driving, and as a result, he ran into a mother pushing her child across the road and had a big accident. This behavior is very dangerous, and the driver's line of sight completely leaves the road. This is a very dangerous driving behavior.

It's popular to shoot videos now. Someone is shooting a video while driving, with one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on the mobile phone. This kind of behavior is obviously an act that hinders driving safety and is also illegal. Obviously, it distracts the driver's attention when playing with others, which is also an act that hinders driving safety.

In fact, these violations are difficult to obtain evidence, unless they are photographed by traffic cameras or caught by traffic police on the spot, so some people don't think so. It is not worth the loss to do these behaviors that hinder safe driving where there is no camera. Security is your own, not others'. First of all, you must ensure your own safety when driving. You can't rely on the camera. Don't take any chances.