Quote: In The News, Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 11:15Bus driver seen 'reading Kindle at the wheel'
Footage shot by a passenger appears to show the driver reading and turning pages on his e-reader
View Guardian article and videoThe battle between traditional books and e-reading devices may continue to rage, but a bus driver in Portland, Oregon seems to have made his preference clear, after being caught on camera apparently using his Kindle while driving.
That is dangerous. I can speak from experience.
In my yoof I got a job on building a motorway and they put me in charge of a tractor dragging a big brush for sweeping flints off the road.
The idea was to prevent high speed agrregate lorries having punctures as they sped to the road-layers, but the job almost killed me.
Driving at a zippy 8mph, I got to sticking a book in the middle of the driving wheel, 'til 1 day I managed to get two wheels off the side and teetered on the edge of a 20 metre embankment.
With my expertise at tractor driving, I'm still not sure how I managed not to topple over the edge.
I blame George Orwell.
PS I got transferred to the chuck wagon after that.