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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Looking at your phone is the primary risk, texting or otherwise. Hugely more likely to get in accidents if you do this.
There’s some evidence that talking on your phone with a hands free device is safer than talking on the phone directly, but it’s pretty weak, and any sort of talking on the phone is significantly distracting.
There’s reasonably good evidence that talking to a passenger is much less distracting than talking on the phone. We don’t fully know why but can speculate. Passengers are in the car looking forward and can alter the conversation based on traffic conditions, are more likely to comment on traffic conditions which might even help the driver stay attentive, etc.
Talking to the passenger loses less situation awareness. The passenger not only can act as an extra set of eyes on the road, since they are also in the same space as you, they will usually know when you need to focus and look away, or get cues from your body language and responses. Someone on the phone has no perception of where you are and what you are doing.
Talking to the passenger loses less situation awareness. The passenger not only can act as an extra set of eyes on the road, since they are also in the same space as you, they will usually know when you need to focus and look away, or get cues from your body language and responses. Someone on the phone has no perception of where you are and what you are doing.
Talking to the passenger loses less situation awareness. The passenger not only can act as an extra set of eyes on the road, since they are also in the same space as you, they will usually know when you need to focus and look away, or get cues from your body language and responses. Someone on the phone has no perception of where you are and what you are doing.
Yes they are both distracting… but it’s holding your phone and not having your arms ready for steering and gear shifting as needed that’s the real issue on top of the distraction. Nobody is stopping you from using your car’s bluetooth to talk to someone on the phone.
Yes they are both distracting… but it’s holding your phone and not having your arms ready for steering and gear shifting as needed that’s the real issue on top of the distraction. Nobody is stopping you from using your car’s bluetooth to talk to someone on the phone.
Yes they are both distracting… but it’s holding your phone and not having your arms ready for steering and gear shifting as needed that’s the real issue on top of the distraction. Nobody is stopping you from using your car’s bluetooth to talk to someone on the phone.
When I was a kid there was this ‘edutainment’ game about the dangers of messing with your phone while driving, don’t remember where it was or who was running it but I remember the experience itself pretty vividly
basically it was a driving game where you would take damage if you hit anything but you had this ‘phone’ that would show random button combinations that you had to press on it, if you took too long to put in the code you would also take damage, too much damage and game over
people were trying it and taking turns and everybody was either crashing into stuff or ignoring the phone, I got on it and instead of holding the phone down and looking down at it I just held it up in front of me so I could see the game screen behind/around the phone and played without crashing until the game basically just timed out
it just always stuck with me that so many people look *down* at their phones instead of forwards, just intuitively, not just while driving either, I’ve seen people walk into stuff because they were using their phone
so it was interesting to see the comments here, personally I wouldn’t have thought there would be any difference other than having one hand taken by a phone
When I was a kid there was this ‘edutainment’ game about the dangers of messing with your phone while driving, don’t remember where it was or who was running it but I remember the experience itself pretty vividly
basically it was a driving game where you would take damage if you hit anything but you had this ‘phone’ that would show random button combinations that you had to press on it, if you took too long to put in the code you would also take damage, too much damage and game over
people were trying it and taking turns and everybody was either crashing into stuff or ignoring the phone, I got on it and instead of holding the phone down and looking down at it I just held it up in front of me so I could see the game screen behind/around the phone and played without crashing until the game basically just timed out
it just always stuck with me that so many people look *down* at their phones instead of forwards, just intuitively, not just while driving either, I’ve seen people walk into stuff because they were using their phone
so it was interesting to see the comments here, personally I wouldn’t have thought there would be any difference other than having one hand taken by a phone
When I was a kid there was this ‘edutainment’ game about the dangers of messing with your phone while driving, don’t remember where it was or who was running it but I remember the experience itself pretty vividly
basically it was a driving game where you would take damage if you hit anything but you had this ‘phone’ that would show random button combinations that you had to press on it, if you took too long to put in the code you would also take damage, too much damage and game over
people were trying it and taking turns and everybody was either crashing into stuff or ignoring the phone, I got on it and instead of holding the phone down and looking down at it I just held it up in front of me so I could see the game screen behind/around the phone and played without crashing until the game basically just timed out
it just always stuck with me that so many people look *down* at their phones instead of forwards, just intuitively, not just while driving either, I’ve seen people walk into stuff because they were using their phone
so it was interesting to see the comments here, personally I wouldn’t have thought there would be any difference other than having one hand taken by a phone
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