ROG:
I was hoping the law would change to a more common sense approach - no mobile phone use of any kind unless vehicle stationary with handbrake applied
Altough I know being on the phone, even handsfree, is distracting (try reversing at a bay while on the phone), what about passengers in the car ?
Most people who are talking to each other try to look at each other, every day you see people driving eraticly, because they are talking, arguing with their passengers, shouting at the children at the back seat etc…, so next, a prohibition to carry passengers, or drivers in a special cockpit ?
As for a common sense approach, I know very well to not answer a phone while reversing, during city traffic or at 5 pm on the M6 at Birmingham, I still think I can answer a handsfree phone call while driving on a quiet motorway at 3 am.
Edit; Muckles answer is what I meant, but better worded.