Just now, in a parking lot, I nearly had two separate collisions with two different cars. These occurred within minutes of each other and each driver was talking on their mobile phone.
I own a mobile phone. In fact, I own an iPhone. Mobile have become quite a nice thing to have, especially for myself who travels a lot and needs a way to keep in touch with family when I am not home.
But when I am driving, I cannot take my attention from the road. When I had a regular old phone, I just turned the thing off whilst driving, or in a restaurant, or a concert or any other place where I didn't want the phone bothering me or anyone around me.
The research is now showing that even hands-free is a dangerous situation.
I wrote about dealing with my own mobile phone use in my blog..