Don't talk and drive?

[AMoore]

Brian Minkin wrote:

I do not agree with the study from personal experience. I talk on a hands free device when driving and do not find it any more distracting than talking to a passenger. Of course if you did a study of people in crashes with or without passengers in the car you might get the same result. I also place outgoing calls by voice command so I never have to touch the phone while driving.

I do find other drivers on a hand held phone obviously distracted and not as situationally aware. Worse yet is those who text while they drive.

I read a study a couple years ago which provided that hands free devices were more dangerous than passenger communications since a passenger can recognize road dangers and someone on the other end of the phone cannot. That being said, I don't care what the study says, I refuse to believe that handheld phones are not more dangerous than hands free. Simply having two hands improves your ability to avoid an accident. I have an onstar phone, which doesn't get dialed. You merely say the the name of the person you want to call, or say the number. That has to be safer than dialing on a hand held device.

Also, people who text message while driving should be incarcerated, especially young drivers!