The New Apple Watch and the likes

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There are two distinct offences. The first one concerns texting:

"A person shall not while driving a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place—
(a) send a text message, or
(b) read a text message,
from a mobile phone."

In those regulations:

"'read a text message' includes access or open a text message (other than by voice-activation) so that it can be read;
'send a text message' includes compose and type a text message, but does not include anything done without touching the mobile phone;"

The second offence that you ought to be concerned about is this one:

"A person shall not while driving a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place hold a mobile phone."

I doubt using an apple watch would be covered by either of those. I don't think you can go so far as to call it a mobile phone. The definition of phone is:

"'mobile phone' means a portable communication device, other than a two-way radio, with which a person is capable of making or receiving a call or performing an interactive communication function, but ... does not include a hands-free device"

You could argue that the apple watch is capable of performing an interactive communication function but it cannot do that independently of the phone, so maybe not. It's arguable either way, really, although I would say it is capable of counting as part of the phone. Once he's not texting, he's probably okay.

http://www.tagheuerconnected.com

SByrne24 wrote: http://www.tagheuerconnected.com The Apple watch has a quite unexpected challenger, this looks a serious piece of kit looks the part too!

I had a look at it but it doesn't really match the interior of my AMG S65