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What Rubbish
Whilst driving a car, the driver is entirely responsible for his or her own actions. They should decide whether or not it is safe at that time to answer or make a phone call using a hands free device. If in any doubt they should either pull over or not use it. To suggest the company is at fault is ridiculous. As mentioned below there are many other distractions, if the company provide company cars with radios in, are they to blame if the driver is distracted by listening to it? Should companies therefore remove all radios from vehicles? or maybe we should just take the whole car away in case the driver has an accident with it.
With this sort of over reaction, political correctness and over the top health and safety rules, the worlds going mad. Where will it all end?
Other driving distractions
Using hand held mobiles whilst driving does cause more distractions, from driving, than hands free mobiles, which still cause a distraction. There are, however, a lot of other things which can cause a distraction whilst driving; eg.-
radios, road signs, pedestrians, sexually attractive people, bright lights, other road vehicles, shop signs, smells, loud noise, eating/drinking, alcohol, other people talking, the emergency services, speed bumps/unrepaired roads, passengers, children, and wives/husbands.
To name a few. Should they all be banned as well! Should employers be responsible if the driver is distracted by the above.
Driving is inherently dangerous, but neccessary, and so a balance has to be struck between other activities, which could make driving more dangerous, and driving more safely. Just where to strike the balance is the stuff of many debates.