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…

@rocketdoctor I don’t think it impairs my driving at All because I generally I am in traffic and have to pay close attention to the road, I not only look at the cars ahead of me but I am looking at the cars ahead of them as far as I can see. And if we ask the other drivers on the road with you…will…

Out on the open road I might use one now and then because the outlying highways are often very lightly traveled but when I do it’s a minute or so and off. In town, I stop on a shoulder or parking lot when placing or receiving a call. Then again, I loathe phone conversations anyway even while at hom…

Out on the open road I might use one now and then because the outlying highways are often very lightly traveled but when I do it’s a minute or so and off. In town Probably more reasonable in OK…then here in NH or MA. There aren’t any places you can drive that’s wide open and straight and no one els…

Here in SD we have hundreds of miles of straight, wide open, lightly traveled highways. I still won’t allow myself or others who may be driving my car to use a cell. Just when you become complacent on those roads is about the time a deer will jump out, or a farm tractor will pull in front of you, et…

I tried driving while talking on the cell once or twice, and did NOT like the feeling of divided attention that came with conversing with a disconnected person who is not in the situation with me. And I do think it’s the conversation, not that it takes up a hand. I’d hesitate in my conversation as…

Never. My wife was out walking and was hit by a distracted driver who was reaching for her cell phone. Two broken legs, over $300,000 in medical bills, and now she walks with a cane. The driver’s insurance paid $10,000 and ours paid $35,000 so our HMO really took a hit.

I followed a truck the other day, and I was ready to turn her in for DUI. ( I would have had to use my phone while driving :wink: ) 20mph then 40mph back to 20 repeatedly in a 45 zone. over to the right berm, not off the road but a tire over the white line, again and again. As oncomming traffic …

Invitation to businesses: Make me feel more welcome to pull in and use my phone! I am in an appointment-driven mobile business and need to use my phone and text regularly throughout the day. If I pull into a parking lot, what do I see? “Customers only!”, or “No loitering!”. I propose a competiti…

There are vast areas in the midwest, particularly in the upper midwest, where you can drive for many miles before seeing another car. Areas where you can see the road disapear into its vanishing point on the horizon, and see a car coming from many miles away. In North Dakota I could look toward a to…

Oy. Still with the phones. The most distracted driver I saw today was not on the phone. He was trying to read something on the passenger’s seat. Recently it was someone actually flipping through a catalog or magazine or something - up on the steering wheel while tooling down an interstate. Then …

Do you use your phone while you drive?

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Ikaris April 16, 2012, 7:33am 87

I do not talk on a cell phone while I drive, mainly because I have seen people killed by distracted drivers. I couldn’t live with myself if I killed someone due to a careless distraction I could have easily prevented.

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