German Courts Rule Phone Nav Units Illegal
Date: Monday, July 14 @ 17:36:25 UTC
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This is sure to cause a stir. A German court has ruled that a navigation application running on a Smartphone cannot be used whilst driving.
Because the use of phones whilst driving is illegal, a court in Cologne has ruled that drivers using a satellite navigation system installed on a phone are infringing Section 23, Paragraph 1 of the German Highway Code.
The full text can be read here (in German) and here translated although you should be aware that Google's translator misinterprets the German for driving as 'tax' because the German for 'steering wheel' and 'tax' are the same.
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