Do you drive while using your mobile phone?

Never drive while using my mobile, if i were to have an accident as a result, how could you live with yourself if you killed someone?
 
Yes i answer my moby if i am driving, that's if i feel it vibrate as i never hear it because of the sounds. I also use my moby on motorway runs to chat to friends and help with the boredom but when doing that i use the ear piece.
I have no problem using my moby whilst driving as i am prepared to drop it into my lap the second i need to. Those that i am chatting to can still hear me when i drop it into my lap and i just shout out, Hold on Old Bill or summit.
Other things i do whilst driving is tune the radio, swap CD's and tapes, rummage about in my glove box or bag i have for more munchies etc open and close the windows, adjust my mirrors if needed etc etc etc etc
I have been driving for decades and i truly believe i can control my car with one hand otherwise how the **** would i change gear.
 
The difference is that most activities listing this thread take 20 seconds at most and eating and drinking don't require any thought.

Tlking on the phone takes much longer and generally distracts much more. The M1 is full of weaving idiots using their phones as proof.
 
TripleT said:
it's no more dangerous than changing radio stations
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How can you possibly say that? How can pressing one button, something that on many cars is on the steering wheel, be as distracting as having a conversation on a phone?
 
I ment tuning but still, all you're doing is talking. How many people here have talked to a passenger whilst driven with one hand?

Most of the holier than thou will probably say "No never blah blah blah" but in truth, you have.
 
difference being that passenger will tell the driver to concentrate on the road if they don't feel comfortable with the state of the driving.
 
I don't really see the problem to be honest unless you are a **** driver. Depends on the traffic and road you're on as well.
 
I use my phone while driving a fair bit, but I've got a proper Nokia CK-7W carkit... you just get funny looks from people thinking you're talking to yourself :p

GSXRMovistar said:
Not so much now but I used to use the phone a fair bit in the car (hands free though) but I’d always put the control of the car first, this used to often annoy people who I was talking to as all of a sudden I’d completely switch off from them as I would be concentrating on the changing road conditions.
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I do that too... it's possibly a bit irritating for the person the other end, but at least you keep your concentration on the road.
 
i do but mostly only in slow moving traffic.

I had a police car about 5 cars behind me in the lane next to mine and was on my phone. The joys of tinted glass.

Another time I was on the phone and a police car was heading towards me so I smoothly dropped it down the side of my face and brushed back my hair. I was so smooth that day.
 
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SgtTupac said:
I do it. No worse than someone eating food or drinking a bottle of water etc.. Still gotta take one hand off driving for all those tasks. :)
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quite true. a good friend of mine wrote his car off a couple of years ago into a ditch whilst eating a McDonalds apple pie. he wasn't hurt though :)
 
I don't. I can't hold my martini, my cigar, my phone and drive at the same time. One of them had to be stopped.
 
Lol good subject,

I was cruising down a duel carraigeway, and ahead i see this focus go to overtake some slower vehicle.

She pulls out, next thing i see is the reverse lights flash on, she swerves all over the place, reverse light goes off, and she overtakes and pulls in.

I overtake them both and as i overtook the focus, what do i see? A blonde woman driver on her mobile phone. :rolleyes:
 
TripleT said:
I ment tuning but still, all you're doing is talking. How many people here have talked to a passenger whilst driven with one hand?

Most of the holier than thou will probably say "No never blah blah blah" but in truth, you have.
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I admit I drive a lot one handed, only with my right hand which is strange as I'm left handed. Still wouldn't talk on the phone as I find I have to concentrate more when on a phone than I do if I am talking to someone in the car. Though even when just talking to a passenger I often just pause what im saying if something happens which annoys people. :p
 
nealw said:
quite true. a good friend of mine wrote his car off a couple of years ago into a ditch whilst eating a McDonalds apple pie. he wasn't hurt though :)
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did he sue mcdonalds? :p

I do if it's an urgent call, and the roads are quiet, but almost always pull over.

Tom.
 
saitrix said:
I admit I drive a lot one handed, only with my right hand which is strange as I'm left handed. Still wouldn't talk on the phone as I find I have to concentrate more when on a phone than I do if I am talking to someone in the car. Though even when just talking to a passenger I often just pause what im saying if something happens which annoys people. :p
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thatll be becasue your right hand is used to controlling the wheel whilst your left changes gear :) Even though i'm reasonably ambidextrous i don't like holding the wheel with just my left hand, even though 95% of the time only my right hand is on it :s

Tom.
 
I don't personally, but of around 700 people I asked in a recent survey, 55% admitted to doing so.

I even got invited onto a radio show on talk 107 Scotland to talk about it :o .
 
Sometimes my car isnt around when im using my mobile phone and in those cases its just not possible.

Now, if you were to ask me if i used my mobile phone while driving.. that would be entirely different.. :p
 
chrisd said:
How can you possibly say that? How can pressing one button, something that on many cars is on the steering wheel, be as distracting as having a conversation on a phone?
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any different from having a four way conversation in the car? :rolleyes:
 
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