Road safety is obviously paramount. But having used Glass, having experienced its uncanny voice control capabilities and having seen how unobtrusive an experience it can be, I think an outright ban on driving while wearing it is heavy-handed. Glancing up at the Glass screen floating at the periphery of your vision needn't be much more distracting than peeking at your windscreen sat-nav, and it's certainly less distracting than looking down at a smartphone. And there are other possible benefits to Glass, such as point-of-view recording of incidents that occur on the road.

Traditionally the law has focused on banning distractions that require you to take a hand off the wheel. You do need to tap your Glass or flick your head up to wake it, but it remains more hands-free than any hands-free car kit I've used.

Ironically, it's this hands-free virtuosity that could be Glass' undoing. With an "OK, Glass" and a few spoken commands you can make Google searches, check headlines and stay up to date on Twitter, any of which would be unacceptably distracting for a driver. Or it could be the fact that you need to look up to actually focus on the display. Or perhaps it's the display's propensity to switch off after several seconds that the government thinks could sap drivers' concentration.

None of these reasons demands an outright ban; instead, the DfT should be working with Google to find a solution, whether that's making recommendations for its hardware design or implementing a car mode that adapts its behaviour and functionality for use on the road.

"But how will the police know that you're a responsible, car mode-using Glasshole?", you might well ask. That is, admittedly, a challenge. But I'd prefer to encounter the occasional irresponsible Glass user with their eyes on the road than I would the touchscreen SMSer, or the guy navigating using the smartphone that's sat in his lap. Banning Glass for drivers is banning a plethora of innovative, useful and perhaps even safety-enhancing potentialities – a host of apps that you, I and Google haven't thought of yet – and that's a huge shame.