[jyl]

Oregon has a new law against distracted driving. You are not permitted to use your phone in any way that involves holding it or that requires you to take a hand off the steering wheel. You are permitted to have it playing music or to talk hands-free or to use it as a GPS. You may touch the phone to turn a function on or off, which is kind of vague but probably means you can touch it to answer or hang up, start playing music, turn off directions, activate Siri, etc - but not enter text etc.

Anyway, I need to figure out some way to mount my iPhone so that I can see the GPS directions, and do whatever minimal interactions the law permits. It should be out of sight, so a cop doesn't see me touching it.

Normally the phone sits in the ashtray, plugged into the stereo. But that's not great as the screen isn't visible and I have to take it out and hold it to do anything.

Any ideas?

I was thinking of using aluminum sheet to make a cradle that I'd screw to the underside of the ashtray, like a shelf with a lip that the phone can sit in, in landscape mode.