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you don't process something going on the road lets say the car in front of you may have suddenly stopped. Now you know like I know that you can get so engrossed on the phone that you may not realise what is going on around you. Evidence for this is the loud man on his phone on the bus/train/subway. Now you may be thinking that I am now saying that any form of conversation in the car should be banned. I am almost certainly not saying that but you definitly should not have emotional calls over the phone and should avoid it with passengers in the car.

Now, this article may sound very anti-mobile phone whilst driving. Well, I understand how useful the mobile phone is. So I feel there should be a compromise on a full out ban. This is the policy in the UK. You can only use a mobile phone in conjunction with a hands-free device/headset and the phone must not be handled whilst driving. This means that if you want to call someone the phone must be in a fixed holder and you dial the phone whilst in the holder (still a bit dangerous, the best place to dial someone would be in a queue of traffic) and all sound is routed through a second device e.g. a hands free kit, your stereo or a bluetooth head set. This is a good idea as it means to receive a call it means pressing one large button which could be put on the steering wheel. Also, you can talk whilst keeping both hands on the wheel. This is the policy I feel should be adopted universally as handsfree kits are not all that expensive anymore an this would dramatically reduce accidents.

However, a ban will almost certainly not remove all danger as even today about 3 years after the ban was introduced I still see people driving whilst on their phone. The only good thing is that if they get caught they can get 3 points on their license and a an on the spot fine (for your information if you are a new driver here (2 years since you passed) getting 6 points means your license in revoked, if you are not a new driver getting 12 points within 3 years leads to getting your license revoked).Somethingthat I was told by mydrivinginstructor and still believe is that 99.9% of accidents are down to driver error.

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