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It's a good job some of you don't drive in the UK, where it is illegal to use a phone while driving [unless it's a true 'hands free' type].

Only for the last couple of years. Personally, I think it comes down to applying common sense. You don't want to try dialing a number while negotiating heavy traffic in a busy intersection, but is picking up a phone and pressing one button to answer a call while driving along a straight road any more "dangerous" than looking down to switch on the radio, adjust the heater, or any one of a number of other things?

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People have also been successully prosecuted for eating while driving, lighting cigarettes and in one case a lady was fined for eating a chocolate bar while stopped at a red light with the car out of drive and with the parking brake on!

It's gotten ridiculous. There was a story a while back about a cop trying to charge somebody with "careless driving" because he saw her turning and talking to her passenger -- While stopped at a red light! [Linked Image]