What makes talking on the phone while driving more dangerous than talking to another passenger in your car? Does talking on speaker-phone mitigate any of this risk?
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Worse sound quality, more concentration to make out what is being said.
When someone is with you, you can kinda zone out, and ask them again, when on the phone, you tend to switch up your concentration. People in a car will talk differently too, they won’t have the full on intellectual conversations as you would person to person.
Radio (CB / walkie talkie stuff) is different again, that’s the lowest level of concentration. You listen to a message, think up a reply, and then send that back.
So radio is a bit like sending a text message, you don’t have this drive to instantly reply. Sitting in car with a person tends to have a lighter level of conversation, the people inside the car can see you looking ahead and being distracted from the conversation, they’ll also get distracted from everything else going on around them, and the phone call is a full on one-to-one conversation which distracts you a lot more.
A similar feeling to turning down the radio when you are looking for a place, less distractions.
That phone call is a level above those distractions.
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