“In the first video, ICBC suggested that it is illegal to have your phone sitting loose in your car, loose in the cupholder, on the passenger seat beside you and that is not the case. The BC Supreme Court has ruled that you are perfectly allowed to have your phone loose in the vehicle so long as you’re not touching it at the same time.”
“They tried to suggest that the video was meant for situations where the phone was in use. But even then, depending on what you’re using the phone to do, you can still have it loose in the vehicle. There’s a distinction in the law between actively using the phone – the type of use that distracts you from the road like talking or touching the phone, texting, that type of thing – which is prohibited if the phone is loose, and passive use, like having your phone give you your music or podcast, gps directions through the speakers of the vehicle. That type of passive use is not prohibited by the legislation.”