We know that lots of people talk on the phone while driving. Are you one of them? No judgment here! (Well, we’ll keep it to ourselves). We just want to engage folks in a discussion about why people use the phone while driving, under what circumstances, and what your experience has been. Have y…

Actually, airplanes do land themselves. Google for “auto landing.” It’s a pretty standard feature on airliners these days.

All research suggests that driving while using a cell phone, hands on or hand free, is an added risk to personal and public safety. As a fossil without a cell phone I can tell you that EVERY day I run into some self-absorbed jerk(s) driving while on their phones. The amount of problems this causes…

No, I don’t use my cell phone while I drive. If I must, then I will find a place to pull over first and stop. I think talking on the phone while driving is endangering my life as well as other drivers and pedestrians.

yeah, but only on an empty highway when my passenger can take care of answering the phone. i use earphones and inform the other person that i am driving and might tune them out to pay attention. i also talk on my cell phone when cycling. i pull over to answer, put my earphones in, then bike aroun…

No. I don’t even like to have a conversation with someone in the car while I’m driving.

Occasionally I will answer a call, and I know that I am distracted when doing so, I prefer to pull over and talk or dismiss the call. Anyone remember when you got a call you did not have to ask where are you calling from? It used to be a person called you you knew they were at home. I have been behi…

Depends on who is calling and even then only with headset. Am buying radio bluetooth kit before moving.

It’s not the mechanics of using a phone that causes the distraction, It’s the conversation. No. I don’t phone and drive.

I do but not long drawn out conversations. Ive even forgotten I was on the phone while I had to swerve out of the way of someone who cut me off and ended up picking the phone back up like 5 minutes later at the next light.

Do you use your phone while you drive?

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Kendahl February 24, 2010, 1:13am 27

Not quite ten years ago, I had a cell phone for a year. When I tried to talk and drive simultaneously, I found that I couldn’t do either task well as usual. Today, I often receive calls from people who are on their cell phones while driving. They don’t function very well either.

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