AnswerID: 274776 Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 13:31
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Hi Mainey!
Sometimes legality has very little to do with safety and this draconical “mobile phone law” has absolutely nothing to do with safety, but simple revenue rising exercise. By far it is *MOST* disobeyed rule
on the road and I have not seen any evidence that because of mobiles we have higher road tolls.
Independent research shown that there is no difference in “distraction factor” between hand-held devices and hands-free. Conversation itself distract more than everything else combined.
Now lets employ a little common sense. When using hands-free one has to take his/her eyes from the road and look who is calling (probably not going to pick-up). Next you need locate green button and answer. If using normal mobile one can just lift it to his/her site and answer without removing eyes from the road. When it comes to make a call then hands-free is total disaster – it is absolutely impossible to make call without major disruption while ordinary device it is enough just lift it above your wheel.
Not only that – hands-free quality far worst then normal phones and often phone lying somewhere in console rendering bad reception. Thus conversation tends to be longer and require more attention with hands-free.
Not lets talk about something else. My common sense in combination with 25 years crash-free experience yelling that using portable MP3 players far much worse then mobiles (for talking, not for TXT – arguably most disastrous behavior). MP3 design tend to be small and has very small characters. In additional interface in majority of them done in such way that it make it impossible to operate device without seeing screen. Yet I know nothing about banning MP3 players in cars. Satellite
navigation (when setting up) not far behind MP3 – even located quite convenient they are far from ideal in terms of ergonomics.
Next lets came to using something like Melway while driving. Smoking far more destructive and dangerous then talking. And how about drinking coffee while driving passing it from one hand to another to make turn.
And to finish this I can tell you what I saw by my own eyes. On freeway at about 100km/hr one lady was driving and petting her pet dog on her knees. At the same time she was holding Melway on the wheel. Not enough – she was smoking also. But hey, she did not talk on the phone so everything what she was doing was legal and therefore as some can say safe.
No-one can convince me that this mobile rules in our safety favor. I believe that in their revenue rising favor.
And last things. I hate mobiles and never talk more then 30-60 seconds on them.
Cheers
Serg
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