In message k
Stimpy wrote:

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:47:34 +0100, Roland Perry wrote
In message k, at
08:33:21 on Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Stimpy remarked:

That raises something about which I've often wondered. My car has an iPod
socket so I sometimes use the iPod controls whilst driving. It's not a
phone so is using it specifically prohibited?

The prohibition on "using" a mobile phone would not apply to an iPod,
but *would* apply to the almost identical activity of accessing "iPod
functionality" within an iPhone.

Technology-specific legislation is almost always misguided, and in this
case the law is very specific to certain specified phone technologies.


Indeed. So let's assume it's not forbidden to use an iPod. It could,
however, be argued that using the iPd functionality on an iPhone is
illegal.

Now consider the case of iPod Touch which shares a common user interface
with iPhone and, apart from the ability to make phone calls, is all but
identical to an iPhone.

Would using the iPod functionality on that device be illegal?

No, it is not a phone. However the usual caveats about possible
dangerous/careless driving still apply.


It's can of worms innit? :-)


Not really but it is the usual uk.r habit to create a can of worms if at all
possible.

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