"you should watch where you're walking!"

[Eden]

I admit I DO talk on the phone while in the car, but it's always with hands free or the speaker phone.

You should understand that it is actually no safer to use hands free, though no where in the states has any government been ballsy enough to ban phoning in cars entirely..... its not so much the hands factor as the brain occupied elsewhere factor when it comes to driving and cellphone use.

WA state just passed a no texting and no talking without hands free law. The press release announcing the law comes out and says right on it that no cell phone use in cars is safe, even though it allows hands free devices..... cops say hands free isn't safe, research studies say hands free isn't any safer.

Over three days, the subjects took the wheel in various ways: sober and off-the-phone; legally under the influence of orange-juice-and-vodka cocktails; while talking with a research assistant by hand-held cellphone; and chatting over a hands-free cellphone device. The result: Compared with drivers exceeding the legal blood alcohol limit, users of cellphones -- hand-held or hands-free -- reacted 18% more slowly to braking by the car in front and were more likely to get in a rear-end collision.


It's too bad when it comes to cars in the US, politicians are so frightened to actually pass laws that have a real effect or any teeth....