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Do you drive and use your mobile without a hands free device? 1 member has voted

  1. 1. Do you drive and use your mobile without a hands free device?

    • No, Never
      69%
      48
    • Not often, only if the call is really important
      14%
      10
    • Sometimes
      8%
      6
    • Yes, everytime it rings
      7%
      5

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Quick and easy poll....

No poll:(

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No poll:(

Give me a chance to write it!! :P

Missing a 'Not anymore' option ;)

I *plead* the fifth................

I have a Motorola HF-850 Bluetooth device its fantastic and mutes the radio automatically. I think they are selling them at Halfords for £99 inc of fitting. Well worth it and a lot cheaper than I paid 12 months + ago.

If you drive whilst using a mobile you need locking up before you cause a serious accident and kill someone. Its about time drivers got the message.

I *plead* the fifth................

:eek: :(

:eek: :(

:rofl: As ever .. the controversial one, ;)

I use Bluetooth technology.. and do not answer the phone even on the earpiece whilst driving NOR whilst working at heights as per our very own Health and Safety Dept :D

I never use either of my 2 mobiles whilst driving, and to avoid distraction I make a point of turning the office phone off and puting my own phone on silent. The only reason for not turning the other phone off is that tomtom uses it for traffic updates over gprs.

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Personally, I put it on loud speaker and rest it on my chest.

I only answer it, if it's someone important, and then it's used via it on speakerphone in a dash cuppy-hole, and me shouting at it :)

wil get a bluetooth handsfree put in when I get the Fabia :)

Personally, I put it on loud speaker and rest it on my chest.

Wouldn't work for me. :rolleyes: I just cancel the ringing and look for a suitable place to pull over. My worst sin might be (if it's a clear road in the countryside somewhere) is answer with a quick "I'm driving, call you back in a second!" That's it.

Give me a chance to write it!! :P

Sorry. I thought they all appeared at the same time:(

Used to do. Had a Parrot CK3000 installed at Halfords £99.99 fitted. Works great!

Personally, I put it on loud speaker and rest it on my chest.

Even this breaks the law. The handset must be fixed in place to be used.

People have to start looking at this like not wearing a seatbelt or even drink driving. Fact is if you are using a phone whilst driving without it being genuinely hands free it's dangerous.

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Even this breaks the law. The handset must be fixed in place to be used.

But it can't go anywhere.

But it can't go anywhere.

Then don't use it!

Are you looking for a real solution? There are numerous ways of fixing a handset to the dash of a Fabia, lots af different products. All you need to do it google it.

The ultimate answer is get a bluetooth carkit or headset (A decent headset it

I put it straight to loud speaker if i havent remembered to turn on my bluetooth headset. i dont risk putting the phone to my ear no more.

Always via the bluetooth headset, never via the loudspeaker,the sound is crap and I wouldn't want to take the chance with the phone in my hand.

Other than that, the phone doesn't get answered.

I'll put my hand up and say I always used the phone without handsfree before the law changed.

There are still several people on my firm that hold the phone to thier ear when driving, one of them was fined last year, how stupid is that?

have recently inherited bengie's old bluetooth kit :thumbup: in the past i simply didn't answer the phone whilst driving, but the vibration in my pants area was possibly just as distracting as using the phone :o

There are still several people on my firm that hold the phone to thier ear when driving, one of them was fined last year, how stupid is that?

With us, if you drive company car and get caught it's an instant P45 :eek:

OMG - I just saw the young Bill Gates masquerading as "andypandypoos"

voted no,not ever , but i have used one very occasionally whilst driving , only to receive a call , and everything they say about losing concentration on the driving is true , i won't answer a call ever now especially as the police want to tax for using it :eek:

If you drive whilst using a mobile you need locking up before you cause a serious accident and kill someone. Its about time drivers got the message.

Well said that man. :thumbup:

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