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Originally Posted by Thor
The research keeps coming in pretty clear on this issue, using a cell phone without hands free is like driving drunk, and not just a little over the limit, but a lot. Texting is the king of dangerous driving behavior.
When I see people talk about drunk driving there is no debate, and usually just a lot of people calling out those who do drive under the influence as horrible people. Yet even with what we know about the science of what happens when you are distracted on the phone, people treat this like some personal freedom issue.
Handsfree is much better, but even that still has you distracted, albeit much less than holding your phone or the worst of them all, texting.
I don't doubt that in 10 yrs time people will treat talking on your cell phone in the car or texting on the same level as drunk drivers, minus the hands free crowd.
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Can you link to a study that shows the physical act of holding a phone to your ear is more dangerous than using hands free. I am sure there is a test somewhere where they had people drive around with a block of wood held up to their ear and they got into far more accidents than the control group who left their block in their pocket.