Experts say that it s especially dangerous for teenagers to talk on the phone while driving. When I m dialing a number or something like that, I ve caught myself kind of drifting off, he says. Edgar uses the cell phone while driving, in spite of his mom s strict rules. Though Lisa Duffner thinks that cell phones are necessary, she doesn t have much patience for people that can t take the time to pull over and make the call. My biggest thing is just to pull over to make your phone call.
Experts say that looking at a detailed phone bill is a way of checking up on kids phone usage.
You can look at that, and you can tell if they re spending a lot of time on the phone coming from school to home. Then obviously they re doing it, says Tommy Brown, Department of Public Safety. He just loved life. While the benefits to society are significant, cellular phones and other forms of wireless technology also create distractions that increase a driver s risk on the highways, a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report has concluded. The concern about driver distractions is heightened by the rising popularity of cellular phones and the development of on-board navigation systems, portable facsimile machines and other wireless technologies for the car.