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OK - I will bite :) Here is a quote from not too far back (not from you admittedly): The reality is that you cannot concentrate on two things at once and if the phone conversation causes you to use your visual cortex to understand a question or formulate a response - something over which you have n...

The reality is that you cannot concentrate on two things at once and if the phone conversation causes you to use your visual cortex to understand a question or formulate a response - something over which you have no control - then using it for something required by the driving task is simply not po...

Maybe the reality is that good planning (and experience) allows for rapid mental cycling of tasks, so results in something that functionally is equivalent to multi-tasking? The reality is that you cannot concentrate on two things at once and if the phone conversation causes you to use your visual c...

You know multi-tasking is a myth right?

Just one of many links:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

How can you consciously "return to the decision making process" if your conscious is consumed by the phone call?

Matt1962 wrote:Turning all your attention away from a hands free call back to driving can be instantaneous [...]

Only if your paying attention to the hands-free call has not caused you to miss the very thing that requires you to switch your attention back instantaneously.

While there's stuff like this available, what possible chance is there of closing the stable door? http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/zerotouch "ZeroTouch is the only car phone holder with voice control. Because life doesn’t wait for you to park." All of that is a direct copy of Apple ...

I expect this one has been posted before, and I fully expect it to be dismissed like all of the others, but here it is anyway...

http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/talking-driving/

It's a simple matter of what is or is not policeable. Neither are "safe" to use on the move. Hand-held use is obvious. Hands-free use is not. I believe it is that simple. T'is so. I'm sure you've taken the time to read this link from earlier. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2009...

Which means that you believe that the Government believes that hands free mobiles are unsafe to use, but they have made it legal to use them. That's illogical, and certainly not supported by their other action of making hand held mobiles illegal to use because they are unsafe. The Government have n...