Sir, – Fair dues to the Garda Síochána for using a truck patrol to detect drivers’ dangerous behaviour, such as using a mobile phone on their knees (“New Garda patrols in trucks aim to catch drivers discreetly breaking road traffic laws”, News, September 17th).
However, as the driver of a car almost as elderly as myself, I am concerned that most new cars now seem to have an information screen in the centre of the dashboard displaying all sorts of data, from satnav information to “infotainment”. On the motors page today we are told that the car reviewed contains a 21-inch screen in the dashboard.
Surely these new dashboard screens are equally distracting to a driver as a phone on their knee? – Yours, etc,
TONY CORCORAN,
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Rathfarnham,
Dublin 14.
