In a law change that will be enacted in 2021, the BBCreports drivers won't be able to pick up and use a mobile phone or satellite navigation system while driving.
The bolded is what I have issue with. How do you know where you are going? I suppose we all have to go back to the MapQuest days where we print out our directions, and then look down at the paper And fumble through pages instead... because that’s totally not more distracting...
Sort it out before you start driving. And if you need to adjust then pull over and stop.
In a law change that will be enacted in 2021, the BBCreports drivers won't be able to pick up and use a mobile phone or satellite navigation system while driving.
The bolded is what I have issue with. How do you know where you are going? I suppose we all have to go back to the MapQuest days where we print out our directions, and then look down at the paper And fumble through pages instead... because that’s totally not more distracting...
Sort it out before you start driving. And if you need to adjust then pull over and stop.
I’m always using Siri to interact with maps, but even the act of looking at the navigation screen could be taken as a “officer: hey I saw you looking at a screen, you must have been interacting with it”. It becomes a he said/she said scenario, which is what I understand as the root reason for this law: to remove any ambiguity, thus moving us back to the 20th century. I don’t text or talk on the phone while driving (just ask my wife, it annoys the heck out of her), but the navigation takes the cake. I will be printing out directions from now on just as a fail safe: “Officer, the reason why I was looking away from the road was to check where my next turn was and had to turn the page to see the next one.“ At least until they outlaw interacting with paper, then I just won’t make any trips.
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