The idea that all mobile phone use, hands free or otherwise, should be banned is supported by the 30 road deaths a year attributed to mobile usage.
Frankly I think it’s about time we started casting our minds back to the days before cell communication. Well, go on. Did you have to stop at every phone box and make a call to Billy about the match or ring hoe to tell your other half you were not on the train? No.
It is staggering how much a family sends on conversations that once never took place. And to no ill effect.
This is not about communication, it is about a lack of communication.
Do you realise what a dribbler you look like apparently talking to yourself at the traffic lights. Or how much a bluetooth earpiece resembles a surgical appliance?
On the other hand can someone tell me what the difference is between a distracting hands free conversation and nattering on and on to your passengers, sometimes finding the need to turn and face them in the rear. Of the car, not in their rears, of course.
There are may distractions on the roads, silly signs in cars, radios, the news, roadside petrol prices and naked ladies. Well maybe not the naked ladies.
It is important were keep a balanced view and don’t just take action against easy, socially castigated targets.
Yes you may save some lives, but many others will still be lost to bad practice not so easily stigmatised.
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