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?

Question

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?

In: 26

Answer 1

Your mind goes elsewhere when talking on the phone. We could debate the theories for why but it’s been proven over and over again that talking to somebody who’s in the car is far less distracting in general. What’s really bad is if while on the phone the person asks you a question. It’s worse than being drunk