>> Yet it's illegal to use a mobile phone while sat stationary in traffic...
>
> There's a reason to this:
>
> Phone calls distract you, that's plain fact (the mistake the legislation 
> makes
> here is IMO that it distracts you no matter whether you use a handsfree 
> unit or
> not, but that's another story).

And also talking to a passenger distracts you too.

> So here you are, concentrated on your phone call - all the more (!) since 
> you're
> in stationary traffic so what can possibly happen - and the car in front 
> of you
> starts going again. Being in the middle of conversation, you kind of
> instinctively follow,

At which point you are using the phone whilst moving, which should be 
illegal.

It being illegal to use it while stationary in a car is just ludicrous, in 
what possible way is it dangerous to be using a phone in a stopped car?  The 
worst possible thing that can happen if you are using a phone in a stopped 
car is that it stays stopped when it should be moving - at which point 
someone will honk you and you'll go (compared to say if your car broke down 
and you would be stuck there for much longer).

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