Placing cellphone in the cupholder while using GPS navigation is also punishable by heavy fines under Quebec’s revamped Highway Safety Code.
Placing your cellphone in your vehicle’s cupholder while using a GPS mapping device, or chatting on the device’s hands-free speakerphone could cost you at least $300 and five demerit points.
Judge Jean-Sébastien Brunet disagreed. He ruled last month that even if Poulin’s version of events were true , his use of the phone would still be illegal, because changes to Quebec’s Highway Safety Code last May stipulate a driver can only speak on a cellular phone if it’s connected through an external device such as the vehicle’s Bluetooth system, or through a Bluetooth headset.
displays only such information as is relevant to driving or riding the vehicle or related to the operation of its usual equipment;
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