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Some are distracted some aren't by telephone conversations witness your F1 driver at 200 mph driving on the very limit I have never heard of one crash because of the pit conversation.

One of my sisters well that's a different story at 30mph.
All the cars going the same way, generally at simialr speed, all highly skilled drivers, etc. I’ve also seen them stop conversations when they need to “concentrate”.
 

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Thirty years ago police traffic cars were only starting to get hands free radios, but you still needed to press the PTT to talk no VOX.
As a Panda driver at the time I had numerous chases using a BT handset to talk on the radio in one hand & driving with the other.
At the time there were no restrictions on chases you the driver made the decision to chase or call it off. I never had a RTC, & very few of us did.
 

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My car play will read incoming messages to me and take dictation for outgoing messages, all without me taking my eyes off the road or my hands off the wheel.

Mine does as well and IIRC my 2012 SLK did (deffo read SMS). I never used it. There is nothing that important to me that I have to reply while driving. I will stop somewhere safe to reply to calls or messages. I will let the car read messages.

I worked in Amsterdam (early 2000s) for a NY based DOT.COM company. The company car had hands free installed (who remembers cars without hands free built in?) . The calls from NY started coming in on my drive home (about a 2 hour commute). It was not unusual for me to spend most of those 2 hours on the phone. On one particular day, my wife had spent the day shopping in Amsterdam and was travelling home with me. She pointed out that my driving (while on the phone) was very erratic, inconsistent speed, drifting in the lane, getting too close to the cars ahead etc etc . The phone was a big distraction.

I can always tell when the driver ahead is on the phone becuase they are always doing exactly what I have described here.
 

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Thirty years ago police traffic cars were only starting to get hands free radios, but you still needed to press the PTT to talk no VOX.
As a Panda driver at the time I had numerous chases using a BT handset to talk on the radio in one hand & driving with the other.
At the time there were no restrictions on chases you the driver made the decision to chase or call it off. I never had a RTC, & very few of us did.
A lot less traffic, you were trained how to drive and mission oriented (I’m assuming you were not chatting to your girlfriend) and there were no drivers playing with their phones....:)
 

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I worked in Amsterdam (early 2000s) for a NY based DOT.COM company.
Drift-a-thread alert:
In 2000 I was working at Versatel (client of Cap Gemini) near Ajax stadium, right next to Ikea in Amsterdam. We stayed at the Pulitzer mostly, but because of Euro 2000 there were some weeks the hotel was full of footballers and fans, so Marriott or at the worst all the way out to Ijmuiden for a suite at the Holiday Inn with sea views. It was my second project post-uni, my expenses were running at £6k pcm and it was somewhat known as a "party project" among the younger staff. It was a good atmosphere in Amsterdam that summer.
 

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Drift-a-thread alert:
In 2000 I was working at Versatel (client of Cap Gemini) near Ajax stadium, right next to Ikea in Amsterdam. We stayed at the Pulitzer mostly, but because of Euro 2000 there were some weeks the hotel was full of footballers and fans, so Marriott or at the worst all the way out to Ijmuiden for a suite at the Holiday Inn with sea views. It was my second project post-uni, my expenses were running at £6k pcm and it was somewhat known as a "party project" among the younger staff. It was a good atmosphere in Amsterdam that summer.
Yep - fiberoptic networks & Infrastructure. I was with Metromedia Fiberoptic Networks. Had a massive network operating center (and our Euro head office) next to Schipol. Heady days where I was a multi millionaire (on paper) and when handheld devices (staying on topic:rolleyes:) were quite new to most people.
 
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