# Why (in your opinion) are people still talking on cellphones while driving?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-in-your-opinion-are-people-still-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving/558013>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-in-your-opinion-are-people-still-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving/558013 "2010-10-22T15:30:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-in-your-opinion-are-people-still-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving/558013/141 "2010-10-28T14:32:40Z")

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> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> My local CAA (AAA to you guys) offers driving courses to everyone; I’d be surprised if yours doesn’t, **lindsay**.

Yep mine does, their next one doesn’t line up with my schedule but one in the future does. I guess I never put two and two together (as in, AAA would be the most rational group to _do_ defensive driving classes\*.

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**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-in-your-opinion-are-people-still-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving/558013/142 "2010-10-28T15:00:30Z")

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> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> I saw an article somewhere recently that noted that insurance companies have not found the level of accidents that one would expect to follow from the findings about cell-phone distraction. There is some thought that drivers who talk on their cell phones compensate by reducing the other common in-car distractions – radio, conversation with passengers, nose-picking, makeup, hair, fax machine, etc.

Then there’s the tale my BIL told whilst driving down the road one morning - on patrol, in uniform, in his fully-marked, in-your-face, state police car. A young lady blew by him - busily applying her mascara in the rear view mirror. I can’t remember if he stopped and ticketed her for utter stupidity, but i’m pretty sure he did. 😛

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