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The Trans­port Min­istry is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the in­creas­ing use of mo­bile and wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices for video calls, record­ing and live stream­ing while dri­ving to de­ter­mine whether ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry pro­vi­sions are need­ed, says Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our.

Za­k­our con­firmed the min­istry’s cur­rent re­view of the sit­u­a­tion in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day, while re­ply­ing to a ques­tion from In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs.

Attzs had asked Za­k­our to in­di­cate whether the Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry or en­force­ment mea­sures to ad­dress the grow­ing use of wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices for video calls, record­ing, or live stream­ing while dri­ving, which may dis­tract dri­vers and im­pair vis­i­bil­i­ty and road safe­ty.