Has anyone been told to self-isolate from sitting in a car park?

[frozendaisy]

Pick up child from school and school had a large car park for parents, lucky I know, we have to stay in car, windows closed, but can be 15mins.

So even though you are both in your hermetically sealed cars this could, I presume, spark a "please self-isolate" notice?

I am turning Bluetooth off for school run for this reason or am I being paranoid?

That very same thought occurred to me today as I was waiting for my DC. I had an alert from the app overnight saying I had a possible exposure (turned out to be nothing) but I'm at home 95% of the time. We are getting shopping delivered etc, working from home, not going out where possible. Couldn't figure out where I'd have come across someone for long enough to trigger an alert. But then was sitting in the car park alongside lots of other parents, I wondered if that was it.

Yeah can't see how the app can tell if you are in a container basically.

I am assuming you would get an alert.

So I am turning Bluetooth off for school run as it would be nonsense to get told to self-isolate by following the "keep safe" rules as requested by the school, meaning I couldn't do the Covid safe school run! And if the same happened to their dad child1 couldn't go to school.

Bluetooth can definitely "sense" through walls so a car door definitely.

Have a look at how many devices your phone locates even in your own house, I bet there are some there that are in other homes?

I only turn mine on when I am somewhere I could actually be in close contact with someone so pretty much never.

I was wondering this while sitting in a traffic jam for 20 minutes this morning

We have some road works on the dual carriage way nearby and I’m always stuck in traffic for at least 20 minutes twice a day.

There’s 2 lanes of traffic so I could be less than 2 metres away from someone in the car next to me.

So in agreement Bluetooth off in car!

Didn't contemplate traffic jams.....

@StarCat2020

Bluetooth can definitely "sense" through walls so a car door definitely.

Have a look at how many devices your phone locates even in your own house, I bet there are some there that are in other homes?

I have thought this next door we have a nurse so I turn it off at home. Getting ridiculous I know.