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Originally Posted by boot man
Hopefully we adopt the hands free law that CT and NY have now. While it is not perfect, having a headset vs. hand on phone pressed to ear is much safer.
I'd recommend Bluetooth type wireless headsets to all who HAVE to talk on their cell while driving.
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I disagree. I lived in NY for several years after they passed the headset law. It makes no difference--you see just as many mopes driving 15 under in the left lane while they're chatting away. It's the conversation that distracts drivers, not the act of holding a phone to one's ear. Just for fun, next time you're behind the wheel, hold one of your hands against you ear, with no phone in it, and see how you drive
There are people who can't multi-task at all--they can't talk and drive at the same time. I drive with one hand all the time--I learned to drive on a stick and my right hand just rests naturally on the shift. Pilots fly 300 ton planes one-handed. There are hundreds of people I see who drive in a fog because they're wrapped up talking to the person in the passenger seat. They'll actually turn their heads to face the passenger when they talk
The hands-free laws are a band-aid on a wound that needs to be stitched. The answer is educating drivers. You get a drivers' license after two months of lessons on city streets, then you're turned loose on the roads
There are millions of divers who have no clue how to merge onto a highway, never learned how to parallel park, and once they outgrew the natural caution of a newly licensed driver, operate as if they're the only vehicle on the road. But if anyone proposed re-testing drivers every 5-10 years, they'd get the bum's rush out of office.
Look at it this way--the guy who flies you and your kids to Disney World demonstrated that he's at the top of his game to even get the job in the first place, and he has to re-prove it by getting re-tested every 6 months.