The last thing I want to do when I’m driving is talk on the phone. (It’s also pretty much the last thing I want to do anywhere anytime.) And if you think hands-free phone calls are safer, think again.

…laws mandating the use of hands-free phones are little help: the increased risk of injury is attributable to the cognitive impairment from the phone conversation, which distracts in ways that a conversation with a seatmate does not, and was just as high for those using hands-free sets as for those with hand-held ones.

~Caution – Driver May Be Surfing the Web, NYTimes, August 24, 2008

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