Unlike speed cameras, there are no warning signs for the unmarked mobile phone cameras. Drivers caught using their mobile phones lose 5 demerit points, but that increases to 10 demerit points during special double-demerit periods such as the recent Queen's Birthday long weekend. 'The rate of mobile phone offences by drivers has fallen steadily since the mobile phone detection cameras were first introduced for a six month pilot in January last year,' she told Daily Mail Australia via email. There are expected to be 45 cameras installed by 2023'Ultimately it comes down to interpretation of the photograph: is it a mobile phone? NSW is the first state to introduce laws to enable camera-based enforcement of illegal mobile phone use.

Source: Daily Mail June 22, 2020 11:06 UTC