On 8/22/07, Joseph Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See, that's what I'm getting at. I could be wrong, but I like to think > that my driving is the same whether I'm talking to the person in the > seat next to me or if I'm talking on a hands-free set (I refuse to > talk on the drive and talk on the phone without the hands-free set). I > certainly don't feel any more distracted. I suppose anyone that's > driven with me in both situations would be able to tell me better.
A better metric would be to ask the people you talk on the phone to. When my family catches me on my cell-phone while I'm driving they won't talk to me because I'm distracted from the conversation because I focus on the road and the cell-phone conversation is just more background noise. However, I think that trying to make a self-judgment on our own distractedness while talking on a cell-phone vs. normal, in-car conversation is virtually impossible. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
