Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law)

[M. Schrijver]

I've been driving with TomTom Go for many years.
This is trackbased navigation but it taught me that magic can happen. TomTom Go is now a rocksolid navigation tool. It does not require user input when riding. When something happens and i am forced to take an alternative route, i force TomTom Go to follow me and mostly within a kilometer more or less it understand my intention and guides me with an logical bypass back to the original route. In many cases TomTom Go calculated the same route as pointed out by roadsigns for the alternative route.

@Corjan-Meijerink said in Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law):

If you dismissed / cancelled the resume option, you indeed need to skip a lot of waypoints manually. Just do that before getting on the bike

Do you know how frustrating this is when you know it is not necessary.
When i write some comment i get the impression that i'm a shouting person in the dessert.
But when is speak to other persons during holidays or meetings. I get the feeling that i request is not so much different what most other people like.
Just navigation software that thinks for them.

[Con Hennekens]

@M-Schrijver said in Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law):

Do you know how frustrating this is when you know it is not necessary.

It feels like you already have a really great alternative. Why not just use that?

When i write some comment i get the impression that i'm a shouting person in the dessert.

Your suggestions are very welcome. The way you think you have to enforce them for me personally is not.

[RetiredWingMan]

@Peter-Schiefer said in Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law):

Carried over to touch handling the simplest way is to prevent any touch using when the smartphone is somewhat in move with e.g. more then 7 km/h by GPS measurement

How does this work for passengers in a vehicle?

[Howard Millichap]

@Nick-Carthew it is not illegal to touch your phone or satnav in the UK so long as it is in a cradle. It's then not "hand held" and would be no different to touching a screen built in to a car. To be prosecuted you would have to be considered as not being in full control of your vehicle. e.g. swerving all over the road whilst fiddling with it.

[Nick Carthew]

@Howard-Millichap Thank you for the clarification. A Bluetooth controller is still the best option though

[Lynchy67]

@Nick-Carthew

Why not ditch Via Points completely then just assign a specific colour to shaping points to be a sudo Via Point.
No interaction needed.

[M. Schrijver]

@Lynchy67
With what purpose?

[Lynchy67]

@M-Schrijver

To negate the need to have any interaction with the route at all.

[Nick Carthew]

@Lynchy67 said in Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law):

@Nick-Carthew

Why not ditch Via Points completely then just assign a specific colour to shaping points to be a sudo Via Point.
No interaction needed.

Via points are useful for marking stops as via points can be separated, by this I mean that you can use the ETA box to see time and distance to the next via point, useful if you have a rumbling tum like me and as I said I seldom need to interact in that sense, ie skipping but if I do it is simple with the SilverFox controller. Most of my interactions with the app are zooming and checking the ETA for the next stop.

[Con Hennekens]

@Lynchy67 said in Using your phone while riding becomes complicated (Belgium law):

No interaction needed.

What interaction would be prevented but that exactly?

[M. Schrijver]

I suspect the autoskip function.