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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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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Answer 1

It isn’t. If it were the hands-free laws would have come out when cell phones did, instead of 20-30 years later when smart phones got popular. Texting and driving is dangerous for obvious reasons, and it’s easier to just say don’t pick up your phone at all than argue about whether someone is calling, or texting or whatever.