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But it will be banned eventually. There is a reason why car entertainment systems arent allowed to playback visual media while driving, mobile phone use is bann

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Its about distracting the driver and as soon as these devices get more popular they will be included in these laws, thats certain. That's usually the stated justification, but in reality what gets banned is pretty much completely unrelated to the empirical evidence as to actual sources of distraction; most places explicitly ban non-hands-free device use, even though, IIRC, studies have shown that hands-free and non-hands-free device use have similar effects on driving ability (and that using a phone, hands free or not, has similar impact on driving ability to carrying on a conversation with a passenger, which is also not banned.) If there's any justification for the actual bans we see , is that there is an industry wants to sell in-car hands free devices and hands-free add-ons for devices