do you think that you should be allowed to talk on the phone and drive at the same time?

Question

i do not think that it is safe. 25% of car crashes are caused by talking on the phone and driving

Answer 1

when i was 15 my 3 best friends died in a car accident. A lady talking on her cell phone failed to stop for a red light and plowed into them killing all 3 of them. So no I think we can all just get from point A to point B without talking to anyone outside of the car, just like we did for centuries past.

Answer 2

No I don't. Too bad there wasn't some way to make them unusable in a car while the car is in Drive.
What's funny is people that don't even realize how bad they are driving when they do it. My husband is all over the road when he's on the phone, but if I point it out to him he tell me I'm wrong.
A car is a massive amount of steel traveling at high rates of speed and I think needs your full attention while in control of it, otherwise awful things can happen. It only takes 1 second to lose your focus and cause an accident. Yes you can be distracted my other things, but cell phones are the biggest problem besides driving under the influence.

Answer 3

Absolutely! Safety is an individual's responsibility, not the government's.

And where do you get that number, 25%? That's not true. Between drunk drivers, sleepers, teen drivers and weather related accidents, I KNOW there's not room for 25% of any other reason. Much less something that little over half the population has in their posession! That's counting non-driving children.

I am adament about this because these were first introduced as car phones. We still call them mobile phones. They've been around for a long time.

The big deal about talking and driving wasn't made up until manufacturers developed hands free setups, just as I'm sure any developer of an automatic makeup machine would call for the ban of applying makeup in the car.

As long as Restaraunts have drive up windows, for as long as parents are allowed to have children in their car and until they outlaw reading or talking with the passengers of one's vehicles, I will stand against any law banning cell phone use in cars.

Answer 4

Anything that takes your attention away from driving is not safe. This includes fiddling with the radio, trying to read your GPS, and talking on the phone. It also includes eating that donut, drinking that coke, and trying to get your radar detector plugged in. Although with cell phones talking isn't as bad as taking your eyes off the road trying to dial it. Hands free headsets at least let you keep both hands on the wheel.

Answer 5

I think they should arrest anybody talking on a cell phone while driving! If you ever get behind someone talking on the phone while driving they speed up and then slow down and drift all over the road just like a drunk driver.

Answer 6

Worst thing in the world. They need to make something that will prevent a cell phone from working in a moving car.

Answer 7

i think of actual no texting. Calling ehhh perhaps if on speakerphone because of the fact the two arms could be on the wheel and eyes on the line yet with speakerphone it quite is an analogous factor as taking to somebody sitting in the passenger seat as long as you dont turn around. perhaps even particularly much less risky because of the fact which you dont have the urge to tutor and notice and expression because of the fact its in basic terms a telephone haha (:

Answer 8

I personally believe that a moving vehicle is a lethal machine and requires one's full attention when operating it; therefore, I do not think people should talk on a telephone when driving.

Answer 9

I drive alot, and i can say from experience that people would drive much better if they shoved the phone up their a$$

Answer 10

Its about the same as driving under the influence of alcohol.