It’s funny the things you can take for granted — for example, I figured that you could go just about anywhere in North America with a GPS navigation unit in your car and not cause any offense. In Quebec, however, you’d be breaking the law.

After a fight lasting more than a decade, Quebecois cabbies have succeeded in getting the government to legalize in-car GPS navigation systems, which had previously been illegal due to a prohibition on all display screens visible to the driver. But Quebec is not as crazy as it may seem on the surface — the law seems to have been lightly enforced, with only a few hundred tickets given out in the past few years, and they haven’t gone after the rental car agencies openly offering GPS as a option, or the thousands of OnStar customers.

Much like our local prohibition on shooting buffalo from the second story of a hotel, this appears to be just another law left over from the olden days… and much like our speeding limit, one that almost everybody breaks just a little.