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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > The problem with mobile phones in the car has less to do with > taking a person's hand off the wheel (although that is something to > be concerned about), and more to do with the fact that the driver is > distracted by talking to the person on the other end. They say this, but it doesn't work that way for me, as a datapoint. It's not the conversation that's the big thing, IME; it's *holding a phone up to your ear*, which is an action we train ourselves to follow up with *ignoring what's going on around us*. When I talk while driving *without* a headset, my driving's usually fine... it's my *navigation* that fails totally. Using a headset, both are fine. YMMV. Shutting down the networks just because they can be used to trigger a bomb is asinine, though, yes. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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