Using Google Maps

10 - 30MB depending on how many different scenarios I check.

 

What Skellr was talking about, I believe, is the cell phone laws. Which is actually the "handheld portable electronics device" law. If they see you fiddling with it, they can give you a ticket as if you were texting, or whatever. You know, that $2,500 to the driver and $10,000 to the carrier ticket....
Setting it before driving, and not touching it is fine though.

 

It is a good idea.

You are allowed one touch for something like answering calls but anything more they can nail you. As long as it's only one touch.

 

waze uses nearly twice as much data as google maps. I spent the last 4 weeks on waze and it's used nearly 500 mb, while the months before I've used google it's used 300 mb / month. I believe Google uses waze for traffic updates anyway, so it's not as fast as waze, but nearly as good.

 

Actually Waze and Google Maps are one in the same now in a buyout a few years ago. But Waze simply adds a "user input" interface and more of a "social networking" feel. But the traffic monitoring and reporting has always been a Google technology

 

I just don't get it. I could understand when most had 10 and 13 speed sticks, that 2 free hands were critical, but with most now with automatics, WTF is the big deal about the hands free?

Let's be honest, the real distraction is not the one hand holding a phone, the problem is the conversation itself.

I'd rather ride with a guy who holds a phone 10 minutes in a day than a guy who spends 7 hours/day on the "hands free" phone.

Somebody had to say it.