Reply #13: The issue really is, [View All]

[SheilaT]

as several others have indicated, the fact that the kind of attention being paid while on a Cell phone is very different from the attention paid to ordinary in-car conversations, or listening to a radio.

I'm a cell phone owner/user. On occasion I use it in my car. I've also been known to tell someone I'll call back because I'm in my car.

Some people multi-task well. Others do not. That said, most people have no business being on a phone while driving. I've persuaded one of my sons (the one with Asperger's) that he should NEVER use his cell phone while driving. My husband should never use his cell phone while driving, because he is, quite frankly, not that good at doing more than one thing at a time, and I'll yell at him for making calls while driving, which has at least some small effect.

I just wish more people would self-monitor their behavior.