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Holding a cell in one hand is a bad thing when driving. Having a handsfree kit makes it safer to talk. Period. That's why the laws allow you to use a handsfree kit and drive. If you're fumbling with a phone, it greatly increases the chance of being overly distracted. Granted, the person on the other end of the phone could tell you a loved one just died or you are being let go from your job but generally simply talking on the phone to arrange babysitters or figure out the location of a meeting is no big deal.
As for texting while driving. Give me a break. Do me a favor if you text while driving. Please don't wear a seat belt. Oh. I almost forgot. Make sure you fill out the organ donor information on the back of your license.
I do sometimes check email while driving. Well, more accurately when stopped at a light. It only takes a second to scan email headers for something I'm waiting for but it's a bad idea to be staring at the small screen while the car is moving. Now if I had text to speech to read me my email that would be a good thing...12-08-08 08:54 PM - Good points! That's why I use Vlingo, an amazing voice-to-text application that works with texting, emailing, dialing, opening apps, etc. Now, whenever my wife sends one of her 20 texts on my way home, I just respond using my voice instead of typing. It's great.Holding a cell in one hand is a bad thing when driving. Having a handsfree kit makes it safer to talk. Period. That's why the laws allow you to use a handsfree kit and drive. If you're fumbling with a phone, it greatly increases the chance of being overly distracted. Granted, the person on the other end of the phone could tell you a loved one just died or you are being let go from your job but generally simply talking on the phone to arrange babysitters or figure out the location of a meeting is no big deal.
As for texting while driving. Give me a break. Do me a favor if you text while driving. Please don't wear a seat belt. Oh. I almost forgot. Make sure you fill out the organ donor information on the back of your license.
I do sometimes check email while driving. Well, more accurately when stopped at a light. It only takes a second to scan email headers for something I'm waiting for but it's a bad idea to be staring at the small screen while the car is moving. Now if I had text to speech to read me my email that would be a good thing...
p.s., I have the permanent red/pink circle for my donor information on my license, so I'm good to go!12-08-08 08:56 PM - Pretty much. If it was so bad then the law should have been established years and years ago here in California. Just another way for the state of CA to make some more money. Once the housing bust started, and the state of the economy in this state became garbage, then all of a sudden we need to make sure that nobody is talking on the phone as they drive. All of a sudden they try to instill to us that doing that is unsafe. ALL OF A SUDDEN. Give me a break. If I get caught, I'll take the ticket. Who cares. CHP hardly gives tickets for it anyway. And if I die in a car crash because I was texting, it's my problem. We're all gonna die anyway.
12-09-08 12:14 PM - well that was pretty damn stupidAccording to the NTSB, talking over bluetooth and holding the phone to your ear are statistically pretty equal. It's not how you're talking that makes it dangerous, it's the fact that your brain is distracted from the task of driving that makes it dangerous.
Oh, and if someone comes along and jacks your car or steals your Berry, please don't be mad. They know it's illegal, they just don't care.12-09-08 12:25 PM - yes. because you wont crash on a rural road when talking/texting. it only happens when other cars are around. no fences... corn fields... no farming equipment... nope. none of that at all.Stop being so ignorant. Driving and texting or driving and talking are both extremely dangerous and have killed people. Driving while texting is essentially the same thing as driving with a blind fold on. I suppose you wouldn't care if you drove with a blind fold on because your not hurting anyone else.
The only time its okay to talk/text on your phone is if your driving on a rural farm road (which I do a lot) and there isn't another car for miles up the road. Its a completely different thing if you do it in busy city traffic.12-09-08 12:30 PM
