Driving with cell phones

Alex · 12-14-2011, 12:21 PM

True. They all can be and they should all be done with caution.

But the distraction of talking on the phone is not in the handling if the phone, it is in the cognitive nature of holding a phone conversation and what that does to the human brain in terms of multitasking in a way it simply does not do well. There is now plenty of evidence that talking on a cell phone increases your chances of being in an accident compared to holding conversations with passengers and that it makes no statistical difference whether that phone conversation is hands free or not.

"There is other stupid stuff I do too" isn't really a good defense for doing any particular stupid thing.

12-14-2011, 12:21 PM	#12
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	True. They all can be and they should all be done with caution. But the distraction of talking on the phone is not in the handling if the phone, it is in the cognitive nature of holding a phone conversation and what that does to the human brain in terms of multitasking in a way it simply does not do well. There is now plenty of evidence that talking on a cell phone increases your chances of being in an accident compared to holding conversations with passengers and that it makes no statistical difference whether that phone conversation is hands free or not. "There is other stupid stuff I do too" isn't really a good defense for doing any particular stupid thing.
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