Hi folks,
Do you know how social distance applied on driving such as how many people can sit in a car, can one sit in the front seat?
I could not find any information anywhere yet.
How would social distance apply on driving?
coffeelover19 on 31/03/2020 - 16:56
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no uber then
What reason? When dumping bodies?
If all from the same household it appears ok, but we really need to ask if more than one person has to go out. (For some medical appointments probably yes, but for the shops this should be limited to one person per household and every 3-4 days if possible).
So no threesome in the car.
That's my weekend ruined
The boot is an under-utilised resource.
So are the roof-racks, if you're under 75kg
Got any deals going on box trailers at the moment?
Just grab a shopping trolley
It seems like a lot of people dont' understand the purpose of 'social distancing'.
I think most Queensland drivers have been carrying out 'social distancing' for some years now, they're always 1.5m away from my back bumper when driving.
one drives and the other sits in the boot
context is important,
- reason of travel?
- do the people travelling together live in the same address?
I think if you can answer these 2 then I think you can find the answer
I'm honestly surprised with these increasing restrictions (stage 1->2->3->?) and the fuss being made about hairdressers, dentists etc. that nobody has made any mention of taxi drivers. They pretty much spend the entire day in the company of strangers, prime sources for spreading infections and a decent proportion of their customers are elderly.
They'll get special exemption due to inability to work from home (obviously), and then the service they provide will count as goods n services. All in all way too many things are exempted, but people still need to be able to get to the hospital, etc. Not that your avg taxi driver would want to haha.
People living in same households : more than 2 in the same car is okay.
People not living in same households: max 2 people in the same car. Passenger should be sitting at rear seat.
Taxi / uber : one driver and max one passenger. Passenger must sit on rear seats.
Can you provide an official source from a government website?
Well, officially we know you can't have more than 2 people together, so logic dictates the main points.
https://cpv.vic.gov.au/drivers/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavi…
Is there a limit on the number of passengers that can travel in a commercial passenger vehicle?
There isn’t a limit on the number of passengers, however where possible, passengers should sit in the back seat. Drivers should set the air-conditioning to external airflow instead of recirculation and make hand sanitiser available for passengers where possible.
Ergo, driver in front, passenger in back
Damn, my coworker today offered a ride to 3 other coworkers to their homes as a nice gesture, so they would avoid all the people in public transport.
I hope he didn't get fined for this!
Any chance this would be considered "essential travel"? You are minimizing your coworkers' exposure and they have to get home anyway!@Blue Cat: I hope all the windows were wound down.
I carry a jigsaw puzzle around with me in case I’m accused of non essential travel.
Slightly off-topic but in NSW now you have to have a reason to leave the house. I have been teaching one of the cygnets to drive and was wondering if this would be a valid excuse. Last night I rang the local police station to clarify if this is still allowed. Police said it is.
Just buy a food item when you leave the house; you can leave the house for the purposes of obtaining food
I can’t see it being a problem to take a learner for a drive provided you are not interacting with others. The police aren’t going to be pulling people over to check where they are going (except across borders). They will be concentrating on people obviously gathering together in public places.
There’s the rules and being sensible with social contact (ie don’t). Being sensible is what they want us to do. The rules are what they had to throw together in hurry to try and give guidelines for what is sensible. The rules won’t cover every situation despite the gov wanting them to.
In the UK there are reports of shoppers having their shopping inspected by police and then being fined when their shopping consisted only of 'non-essential' items. Utter madness in my view but it could easily happen here in the non too distant future. Be sure to carry a jigsaw puzzle at all times.
Hi coffeelover19 ,
The 2 rules to consider as part of the Public Health Restricitons on Movement and Gathering are:
- Staying at home
The Minister directs that a person must not, without "reasonable excuse", leave the
person's place of residence.
=>The list of reasonable excuses include things like going to buy food/goods and services, traveling for the purpose of work if unable to work from home and education, exercise and to obtain healthcare and emergencies to name a few.
If you really need to leave the residence AND have a "reasonable excuse" that falls within the allowed categories, then:
- The Minister directs that a person must not participate in a gathering in a "public place"
of more than 2 persons.
=> there is also a list of exemptions and to answer your question, private travel in a car is OKAY, esp if it is to get your holdhold members around to shops/education, rideshare for work (that cannot be reasonably done at home) etc.. So in theory, you could have your family of >2 in one car but I believe the spirit of the legislation to is to minimise the gathering of people outside your immediate household to reduce the potential for any illness to be spread further (assuming the stay at home is in place anyway).
Here is the link to the Minister's Public Health Act Order dated 30th March 2020, on the public website https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/_emergency/Public%20Health%20(COVID-19%20Restrictions%20on%20Gathering%20and%20Movement)%20Order%202020.pdf
Hope that helps. Just wanted to get the right information out there to help as many people as possible be informed and make informed decisions. We're all trying to make sense of the changaing nature of this and how it impacts us, hang in there! :)
Great! thanks for your response.
- Staying at home
And remember to keep all windows wound down at all times whilst travelling in any vehicle. Don't use the air con under any circumstance. FRESH AIR, FRESH AIR, FRESH AIR. Do you want me to say it again? FRESH AIR, that's the only thing that stops this respiratory illness dead in it's tracks!
But what if you stop at the lights and the person in the car next to you sneezes?
If you were stopped at the traffic lights with all your windows down then another car pulls up next to you with their windows wound up and the heater on max. Would you then be hit by the heat if they then wound their windows down? I'm pretty sure the heat would leave their car and then disperse upwards into the open atmosphere.. not across and into your car.
Energy always seeks the path of lowest resistance. The open environment or you could just say the 'Earth' has the lowest resistance.
Increase the 3 second gap to a 5 second gap.
I'm heading to the supermarket but I have to pick up my two step brothers along the way. They live seperately with my mum will I get in trouble? This is essential travel..
Just put one in the boot.
Gathering of more than two is prohibited. There's you're answer.