[aigel]

I don't buy it, that talking on the phone with a hands-free device / bluetooth is more distracting than talking to your passenger in the passenger's seat or worse in the back seat. You have to focus on that conversation just as much with the additional chance that you may want to look at them.

Maybe this depends on the driver. A half million mile veteran probably has a lot of automatic reactions programmed into their head over a new driver that needs 100% of their brain to stay alert. I never have felt unsafe talking on bluetooth.

How about books on tape? Anyone done those? I think they are more distracting than phone calls!

G