Hands-free driving requires multi-tasking which your brain can’t do.
Although your brain can indeed jump around from one activity to another in a short period, that is not the same thing as multitasking. When you’re driving and using a hands-free device, you’re asking your brain to do all of the activities required for driving, plus all of the activities required for participating in a conversation, and it simply isn’t up to the job. A study of brain activity while driving and while driving and listening to sentences at the same time showed that the activity in the part of the brain that reads moving images was cut by a third during a conversation.
Conversations on hands-free devices are not the same as conversations with passengers.
You indeed carry on conversations with passengers in your car while driving all the time, but that’s just not the same as talking on the phone. Passengers can see the driving conditions and know when to stop talking so they can concentrate. They also help you watch the road. The person on the other end of the phone call can’t help you monitor the road, and they can’t adjust their conversation in response to the traffic.
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