Hi @edje,
nice posting, interesting suject, i had a fine once myself for holding my phone :-i
Some, if not all, governments are trying to solve every problem by making new laws, and i m not sure if that is the best way. Concerning the law forbidding to hold a cellphone while driving is even more ridiculous if you know that years ago different institutions did research on that very subject, and guess what they found... there is no difference in the response of drivers calling hand-held or hands-free. The problem is the distraction by the call itself!
I guess it's time for Anarchy!
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Instinctively and from own experience I can agree to this. However, when on a call the driver can still look at the road, while starting a call, the driver has to look at the phone, ie move away the eyes from the road. That part of the call is maybe the most dangerous part of the entire call. When the conversation is getting intense, the time our brains can spend on driving the car and look out for dangerous situations on the road is becoming less and we tend to go into 'auto pilot' mode.
Yes, and they know that they admitted at the time they implemented the phone in hand ban while driving. But the argument was that they could not detect someone calling hands-free reliable, they might as well be singing along with some music or just cursing on the other people in traffic. So enforcement was not realistic so they left that alone. But you can rest assured that as soon as they can do that reliable they'll start writing fines for hands free phone calls, hell if you give em the opportunity they'll even ban talking to passengers in your car.