Yes, but my calls last less then a min and I’ve let it ring if I felt it wasn’t safe to talk, I have also hung up my phone when I encounter traffic, but then again I live in ND and I don’t pass or see much traffic.
My opinion is subject to change with new facts.
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 and the anger and anxiety created has made my daily commute a nightmare. I just can’t understand what is so important that people are willing to risk their lives and everyone else’s for a meaningless conversation! It is time for people to remember that the laws of physics indeed do apply to them, that driving is a privilege with enormous civic responsibilities that can be taken away, and finally, THEY are not the center of the universe. I have attached three links to consider about this topic and pray people will stop denying they are part of the problem and please, please stop using your phone while piloting a 3 to 5 thousand pound bullet!
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1
http://www.aaafoundation.org/resources/index.cfm?button=cellphone
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/july-dec09/driving_07-28.html
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 around slowly. i figure it’s ok since i am only going to kill myself if it distracts me.
i NEVER talk on the phone in the city. i’ll pull over and talk if i think i need to take the call.
No. I don’t even like to have a conversation with someone in the car while I’m driving.
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.
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 behind enough bad drivers that I say gosh on a cellphone, what a coincidence, and they are not kids but urban housewives, the same ones that think yellow is green. Sorry friend in hospital due to red light runner. IMHO No Cell phones, and there are distracted drivers I end up following and all I can wonder is how much can there be to talk about?
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.
I don’t use a phone when driving, because I need both hands to turn the pages of the newspaper.
NO. I will neither initiate nor answer a phone call while driving. I turn my phone off while I’m driving.
If I need to make a call I pull over and stop the car.
now that my 2 cars have bluetooth and are linked to our phones, yes - handsfree only.
I am a Professional Truck Driver, 20+ years experience, 2 million + miles on the road. Yes, I use a cell phone while driving, BUT !!! A.) I mostly drive Out West, where there are huge stretches of long empty road. I choose those areas for extended conversations (and then loose the call between cell towers). 2.)Yes, I have a hands-free headset : both hands are on the wheel and I can look around. C.) If/When traffic gets too intense, I end the call. In extreme cases, I just cease to pay attention to the phone while traffic takes 100% of my attention 4.)When I need to look away from the road momentarily, (I dropped a CD or whatever) I FIRST check all sides of my vehicle, wait until lane is free of cars on both sides (if I veer out of my lane) and then look for, reach for object. Or, better yet, leave it there until next pullover. Road conditions and traffic situations are PRIMARY. E.) Extreme driving: (ice, snow, fog) No, I’m not even answering the phone. 6.)Public Radio can be dangerous! Garrison K., Click ‘n’ Clack have had me laughing so hard I can’t see the road!
I don’t tend to use my cell phone while I’m driving, but here’s the thing. Truckers have been talking on their CB radios for a long time now. So what’s the differnence between thaty and talking on a cell phone?
I’m just curious about truckers. They’ve been using CB radios for years. What’s the difference between that and using a cell phone?
No, I pull over to the shoulder or better yet into a parking area and stop. I have Onstar in my Chevy Aveo for emergencies. If someone calls me they leave a message if they need me bad enough, I’ll call them back.
No…I turn my cell of when I’m driving…I see way too many people doing it…and causing accidents or nearly causing accidents…or not paying attention…or driving erratically…I know people who SWEAR that driving and talking on the phone is easy…yet I’ve seen them on the highway in the left lane laughing away on their cell while driving at 45…not paying attention to what they’re doing…Sorry…driving and talking on cell is a danger to everyone else on the road with you…
I’m not a professional truck driver, but I do what RandyBee does. I use a hands free device (it’s integrated with the car, so I don’t even have to dial. I just tell the car verbally who to call if I’m initiating it). I only do it when traffic conditions warrant it. If during the call traffic gets more intense, I either hang up or just stop talking to focus on the traffic. This is an irritant to whoever is on the other end (not that I notice at the time - they’re pretty much forgotten) but I’d rather annoy them than get hit.
As I’ve said before on here (usually to great angst from others) it isn’t the cell phone that is the problem, it’s the driving attitude of most drivers. There are lots of potential distractions in a car. Food, the GPS, the radio, the kid in the back seat who won’t stop howling about the lame music dad listens to, the kidS in the back seat who won’t stop punching each other on the arm, etc etc. Some of those distractions aren’t going to conveniently fade into the background just because you hang them up. The key is distraction management - i.e. driving needs to be the top priority, and distractions are ignored when needed.
No one on here (so far) has argued that radios should be removed from the car. But tune it at the wrong time, and the distraction leads to a wreck. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t times to safely tune the radio.
If the goal is driver safety, then banning cell phones is not going to work, because the type of person who lets a cell phone distract him to the point that he drives dangerously is just going to find another distraction to muddle up his driving. The answer is to ban distracted driving. If you’re weaving around like an idiot, you get a ticket, whether you’re on the phone or not.
Banning cell phones means the cop is busy giving a ticket to someone who might have been driving just fine with the phone, and meanwhile tens and hundreds of people who are weaving like idiots sail past the useless traffic stop.