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Default Texting or chatting hands free in the car



"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> On 6/21/2014 11:07 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 6/21/2014 10:21 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 6/21/2014 10:13 AM, James Silverton wrote:

>>
>>>> I know it's claimed otherwise but I can't see why hands-free talking
>>>> should be worse than talking to a passenger.
>>>>
>>> We've been over this. A passenger is a second set of eyes. The person
>>> on the phone doesn't know the car ahead of you just slammed on their
>>> brakes or that some idiot just cut in front of you.

>>
>> How many times have you seen the thousand yard stare of someone
>> on the phone, they barely notice anyone around them.
>>
>> I liked the part in the article where he said:
>>
>> -When driving with no distractions, I managed a fairly constant gap but
>> -while speaking on the hands-free, I yo-yoed back and forth wildly.
>>
>> Yeah, we see you. Probably the same people who insist it's all
>> the other people who can't handle talking on the phone and
>> driving.
>>

>
> I suspect you speak with your hands as well as your mouth. It used to be
> maintained that my mother would be dumb if her hands were tied. :-)


lol I have been accused of that too)


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