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Originally Posted by Tickford.

Really?? If you had pulled your head out from where the sun don’t shine and opened your eyes, you would have probably read a previous post from me that stated...



Yes, I totally agree that people who have their phones IN THEIR HANDS while driving is 100% distracting and dangerous. Texting, phone at the ear, surfing the net, etc, etc, with a mobile phone IN YOUR HANDS is 100% not acceptable and deserves a fine and demerit points. Not arguing that fact. You seem to have missed what I am talking about, and what I think is a bull**** law. Which is the fact that...



Again, why is it legal for a P1 probationary driver to use a CB radio which requires them to drive with one hand on the wheel, while in conversation? But it is illegal for a P1 probationary driver to use a cradle mounted (as the law requires) smart phone for navigation?

To me, using a CB is far more dangerous than using maps on your smart phone, which does not require you to drive with one hand on the wheel, be in conversation, nor press/touch the phone while driving. All of which are part of using a CB radio while on the road.

If a P1 driver was to use a Navigation unit in a cradle, it's legal. A phone in a cradle used for navigation is illegal!? What is the big difference? You don't have to touch or operate the navi unit, or the phone, once you have set your destination. You are not driving with one hand on the wheel while in conversation as you'd be when on a CB radio. You are simply following the voice guided map. Both the navi unit and the phone on navigation do exactly the same thing. But the navi unit is legal and the phone is not. Don't you think this is totally wrong?

You could even compare a P1 driver using a CB, to a P1 driver using a phone in a cradle for calls through BT for example. The former requires you to drive with one hand on the wheel while operating a hand held device, while the latter does not require one handed operation of a vehicle, and is hands free, which is obviously much safer. Yet, for a P1 driver, the former is legal, and the latter is illegal. Don't you think this is total bull****?

Arguing about this and that doesn’t change the fact that there is a law which prohibits P players using any function on a phone. It may not be a perfect law and there may be examples where using it for navigation is no different to a Navman but they had to encompass any mobile phone to make the law effective.

There is also a pretty easy and cheap solution as you have acknowledged.