Texting While Driving - On the phone drivers!

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Greenbank in reply to @Brun

If you need to get a quick message to someone I reckon it's safer than a completely legal hands-free call.

Possibly, but then I think "completely legal" hands-free calls are still hugely distracting and should be banned too.

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aglet in reply to @Greenbank

hands-free calls are still hugely distracting

Yes, in addition to the normal cognitive overhead of maintaining a conversation there is no shared context of the driver’s safety-critical environment—eg the other party can’t see when the driver is approaching a roundabout, a pedestrian crossing, cyclist etc and pause/stop.

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