MOTOR Magazine Australia

Tim Keen

ARE THE GOVERNMENT’S CAMERAS JUST CHECKING TO SEE IF WE’RE TEXTING? I SMELL A CONSPIRACY

THE NSW GOVERNMENT has spent $88 million on stealth cameras to stop people texting while driving. They could have achieved the same thing in a more fun way by making manual transmissions mandatory.

Here’s the thing, though – my phone can tell everything about me. It knows when I’m sleeping, it knows when I’m awake. It

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