Warning to those of you who use an iPhone or other mobile device to search / control music while driving, you may not realise you could be committing an offence as "using a mobile phone OR OTHER mobile device" is an offence.
So, is using a hand held remote specific to the head unit whilst driving also an offence? From reading the law as posted it would seem not, although it is transmitting "Data" to the head unit, so it might be.
If the remote was secured to the transmission tunnel, so not hand held, would that be allowed as it would be no different to controlling a fitted radio?
I agree that all such distractions are just that, but as autonomous cars evolve the law will have to try to catch up. At the moment, it seems to me, that the technology is moving faster than the law and it might be better to scrap all the device specific laws in favour of "failing to maintain proper control", but then what is the status of an autonomously driven car?
