triplets_93
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I still want your device not in your hand to stare at it.Someone please make this make sense. In most states you're supposed to use a hands free device to talk on your phone. What's the point? I always use a hands free device to talk on the phone, but only to free up the hand not on the wheel to hold a coffee, or cigarette. And apparently that's just fine. But God forbid it's a phone you're holding, that's a ticket.
What's the difference between holding the wheel with one hand, and a cigarette/coffee/BigMac or phone in the other? Some will say, the phone is distracting. It's distracting with or without a hands free device. I can see and agree with laws against looking at your phone while driving. But taking up one hand doesn't seem to make any sense.
I don't smoke, and when I take a drink of water from a bottle of water, I can quickly set it down in the bottle holder. Many driver's won't set their precious phones down that quickly.
I use my car's Bluetooth to answer any incoming calls.
When I notice a vehicle going to slow, usually in city traffic, and not holding their lane well, it's almost always some jerkel with a phone in their hand!
I wish that Texas would pass a hand free law. Other states have. I wonder those states accident rates went down???
As for distracted driving, you can't ever legislate to zero. I have seen many cases of the driver having an animated conversation with someone in their vehicle.
Or, some people have an animated conversation with themselves.