Laws around using mobile phones while driving?

peter_the_piper

I assume this does not apply when the car effectively answers the phone for you and you just talk.

ElefantEd

peter_the_piper said:

I assume this does not apply when the car effectively answers the phone for you and you just talk.

If you're not holding it while you're talking, it isn't handheld. So talking through the car's bluetooth system while the phone is in your pocket would (still) be fine.

TooManyPoints

The legislation applies to hand-held telephones. It defines such devices thus:

"a mobile telephone or other device is to be treated as hand-held if it is, or must be, held at some point during the course of making or receiving a call or performing any other interactive communication function;"

molerat

Why are people still "holding" phones in the car ? 

I have had hands free for the past 15 years, maybe more.  Initially plug in then blue tooth after market and integrated since 2015.   Most cars built in the past 10 years will have it integrated.

Are people really that technophobic they can't figure out how to use it ?