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Originally Posted by d-ray657
I think we have some common ground here. I agree that a total ban is unreasonable. I do believe that there should be a requirement for hands free use. All phones come with some sort of hands free device, and most can be programmed to make calls based on name recognition. (In other words, you don't have to be rich, but you do need some tech savvy) It is the fiddling with the phone that is the most dangerous behavior.
The hands-free requirement would essentially take care of the texting issue. As far as I know, there is no way to do hands free texting. Even if a phone came equipped with voice recognition software sophisticated enough to write text (as opposed to dialing a pre-saved number), it would also have to translate text into audio to satisfy the hands-free requirement.
Regards,
D-Ray
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Yes, I do believe we've found common ground. FWIW, I'm finding my new Android phone more difficult to use in a vehicle than the Palm Treo I carried for the last five years. The new phone is surprisingly good at voice recognition; however, the lack of physical buttons is certainly a handicap for in vehicle use. I'm not a big SMS user, but do use email and the web from the phone on occasion. I think that voice dictation and text conversion is almost to the state where it will be usable even in a fairly noisy environment. My favorite apps are a decibel meter I downloaded and an HP48 calculator emulator. I looked at the iPhone, but ultimately liked the Samsung for its larger screen.