Re: Driving With Cell Phones -Reply

[jafo@tummy.com]

In article <7753250917021997/A70591/CSAV10/11B28A593100*@MHS.minedu.govt.nz> you write:
>>involving car phones found that the risk of being involved in a car wreck is as
>>high as having a blood alcohol level of 0.08. The good thing is that about 35%
>
>it's not that i'm disagreeing that cell phone use in a car distracts the
>driver, of course it does. but to my mind, no more so that talking to
>a passenger...

Evelyn and I were having this discussion earlier today...  She mentioned the
BAC equivalence and I asked if it was for hand-held units only or also
the hands-free.  She said that both were about equal...  When I asked
about the disruptiveness of talking with a passenger, she said:

Most passengers have their self-interest in mind, and will stop arguing
with you if the going gets tough...

Of course that's true.  A guy I went to HS with I wouldn't want to be ANYWHERE
NEAR if he was talking to his girlfriend (now wife) on the phone in the car
or out of it.  He actually broke one of my phones while talking to her once.

Sean
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