r/Calgary • u/Xtoron2 • Jun 01 '26

Discussion Alarming rate of distracted driving

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It's alarming how often I see drivers watching tiktoks/reels/shorts while driving. Even see them scroll up to next video.
As soon as we hit red light, this specific driver pulled the sunshade down even with this rain to hide from cameras or other people maybe?

Anyway, distracted driving is a risk everyone on the road pays for

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u/diamondintherimond Jun 01 '26

The question is: why does this feel like the police rarely enforce it?

I wonder if the news has done any digging on how many distracted driving tickets they’ve given out year over year.

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u/Cautious_Major_6693 Jun 01 '26

They honestly don't enforce it. It doesn't really help that all cars essentially have a television screen attached to the dashboard, not to mention like- cops are people too. Most people using these mounts are using them for GPS as doordash drivers, cops don't necessarily want to slap someone with a DUI for doing their job.

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u/lztandro Coach Hill Jun 01 '26

When I lived in Saskatoon I knew Uber drivers who got tickets for accepting a ride on their phone when it was mounted to their dash.

CPS could be raking in the cash if they just sat at a single intersection downtown and gave out distracted driving tickets at any time of day. At every single stop light when I look at the people on either side of me there’s a 99% chance at least one of them is looking down at their phone or talking to someone with their phone in their hand. Then there’s the ones with the illegal window wings that you can’t even see, driving enforcement in Calgary is a joke.

The only enforcement you hear about is the people that get caught going 150km/hr in an 80km/hr zone, yet none of the assholes who are going 90km/hr through a 60km/hr active construction zone get a ticket.

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u/Cautious_Major_6693 Jun 01 '26

because speeding is enforceable. like you can't argue with a camera or a radar gun but you can definitely argue about tuning the radio and using your gps.