On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Rick Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yes, I yell at drivers who pay more attention to their > phone than their driving as they blithely endanger everyone else on the > road.
Holding a cellphone to your ear while driving will be illegal in July, anyway: http://computerworld.decenturl.com/california-bans-driving-while That's both good and bad. Yes, it will keep people from holding handsets to their head while driving. However, studies have shown that it's the act of having a long-distance conversation that distracts the brain, not whether the phone is hands-free. On the flip side (apparently this coin has three sides), hands-free devices make you physically more able to respond in an emergency... as long as your attention isn't completely swallowed by the call. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
