"Jonno" <jonno@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98DDD6BCAA8F917E53A@127.0.0.1...
> QUESTION: Is it legal to drive a car while using a mobile phone if the
> handset is held in a cradle on the dashboard and I am using a handsfree?
>
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> Am assuming no voice-activated calls: I would have to press the buttons
> on the handset to make a call.

My old phone would automaticaly answer calls with a headset plugged in.
This would be OK under the new law. But it would not originate without
pressing at least one button (to initiate the voice ativated dial), so
didn't quite. I rarely want to do this and then usually because of being
stuck in traffic.

My new car has a phone wired in so I just press a button on the streering
wheel to answer and similarly can initiate calls without taking my hands off
the wheel.

>
> I remember a law was passed a few years ago about not driving while
> holding a mobile. And then ISTR it was amended and I beleive it is
> being changed again at the end of Feb.

It is only the penalty that changes (3 points as well).

>

Of course the plods are allowed to use two way radios in the car (where you
have to push to talk each time) even when it is not an emergency, so it is
literally one rule for them and another for the rest of us.

The average TC will not like being reminded about [t]his hypocracy, and may
decide to ticket you for something else as well if you do.