Rather well seen for Emmanuel Macronwho stated thatin 2025, we must be able to pay our toll with our smartphone
before continuing: I passed the file to the Minister of the Interior and we will collectively resolve this
just before thanking the tiktoker for the alert. The story does not say if the fine will be canceled, but we imagine that it will be the case.
Note that the video is edited in a fairly humorous manner and without mockery, we salute the approach:
Billet original :
You might think it's a joke, but not at all, it is indeed forbidden to use Apple Pay on tolls, at least in France, under penalty of a large fine!
A customer on the A10 motorway had to in fact pay a 90 euro penalty by the policewhile he was nevertheless paying his ticker at a toll gate.
Never pay with Apple Pay at the toll booth!
As you can imagine, it was not the act of paying your ticket that was punished, but rather the action of holding a smartphone in your hand while driving.
As specified in article R412-6-1 of the Highway Code: The use of a telephone held in the hand by the driver of a vehicle in circulation is prohibited.
Whether at the toll, at the red light or even in traffic jams, the gendarmes and the police have every right to fine you.
However, there is an alternative: with the Apple Watch, normally you shouldn't be worried. So far, connected watches are not affected by the article of the highway code, even if the police could imagine that they interfere with the driver's attention in certain cases.
-Too strict application of the law?
At the origin of this little buzz which has been driving social networks for several days, the TikTok user s4iintt
even made a video of it which already has several million views.
Quite taken aback by the attitude of the gendarmes, he says I take out my phone to pay in Apple Pay… and instantly motorcycle and flashing lights…
. The young man wonders in passing about a possible facial check or because he came from Rotterdam… before checking on the internet the veracity of the words of the representative of the law.
Since the incident, many reactions have been heard. Some gendarmes believe, on condition of anonymity, that their colleagues have undoubtedly been a little overzealous, applying the law too strictly. If the fine is incontestable at the time, lawyers, for their part, believe that the situation is defensible.
Mac4Ever’s review
This information might make you smile, because surely many of us have already paid with the phone when stopping at a toll.
On the Vinci website, it is even recommended to favor contactless payment
by presenting your card, smartphone or other connected object in front of the reader provided for this purpose
. Since the incident, the mention of the telephone seems to have been removed, the site only mentions contactless cards.
We hope that this event will cause the legislator and highway companies to reactin order to obtain an exemption for contactless payment. In fact, taking out a card, a phone or a watch to pay does not change much for security, a priori.
