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Originally Posted by JinnKai
It was "proven" in the 70s and 80s that radios made drivers far more likely to have an accident than those who did not, as well as decreasing the likelihood of response to emergency vechicles (can't hear them). Your argument that radios are passive is a good one, but phones are as well. You can just as easily stop listening to a phone as you can a radio in an emergency situtation. Its about the driver, NOT the device. Banning them will solve nothing (other than padding local municipalities budget).
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Yes it is about the driver. But, no, the phone is not passive. that's my point. A phone conversation engages you to such an extent, that your concentration is even more active and involved than if you were chatting to somebody sitting beside you. My uneducated guess is this is because more concentration is required to deliver/receive a message when there is no (even periphally obvserved) body language accompanying it.
I like what gothmund has to say about it. But one of Gilda's main points did not deal with adults and their childish behaviour, but with children (grade 7, 8, and high school) with cell phone in class!!! I know that in my nephew's (grade 10) school, the policy is to confiscate, even in hallways, and to release them to the guardian/parent when they show up for an appointment.