Video: Dori talks on the phone while driving

Dori you drive like an old man.

what we need to see is you putting on makup while u drive...will anyone fight for a law addressing that? oh, thays right...they already exist!

At slow speed and not a turn signal at all. When I to performance driving school we were moving at speed....serious speed. So Dori has demonstrated he goes slow when on the phone....just like the cretins I see on the road.

You'd be an absolute liar to suggest that you weren't concentrating harder during this morning's drive than you would be by yourself in the car. You were concentrating harder because you were trying to prove your "point" Dori... nothing more.

Try to justify it all you want. Driving while holding a cell phone up to your ear causes you to be more distracted than your normally would be - not to mention that it ties up one of your your hands while you are driving a vehicle.

I find it humorous that you're trying to attack this proposed law as some sort of "tax grab" when the reality is that you're just trying to justify your own behavior.

I liken your justification that you can drive ok as the same as that of a person with a .10 BAC saying "I can drive just fine. I'm not drunk. I'm in complete control."

and driving about 10-15 mph.

Yep. Looks like a real world test to me.

If Dori had had three beers before trying the same thing, and managed to make it through the course without knocking down a cone, would that *prove* there's nothing wrong with drunk driving unless it results in an accident?

We should preface all of our traffic laws on whether some individuals can drive safely across an empty parking lot. Yeah, that makes sense.

Holy crap.....you got a few problems with your test. (1) Lose that thing you called a car and use a real automobile. (2) You need your wife in the seat next to you telling you "all about her day" and you are also missing 3 kids in the back screaming: "Dad, I gotta pee...NOW!", all while you are attempting to talk on the phone. (3) Your test is missing the pesky (I own the road) bicycle riders, the skateboarders wearing black (for night) or concrete (for day) colored clothes and the guy in the next lane swerving into your lane while doing the same thing you are doing.....TALKING ON THE PHONE! Did I miss any?

This kind of reminds me of the old WKRP episode where Johnny Fever was being tested by the Highway Patrol for his reaction time after drinking shots of booze and he kept getting better the more he drank. Dori, I hope your driving won't really improve if you talked on TWO phones while you drive.

This video proves nothing, and IMO banning cell phone use while driving is a good thing.

I agree that many people are VERY distracted while talking on the phone in a car. My father was a flight instructor, and I learned at a very young age how to fly, soloing a sailplane at 14. I learned how to scan the instruments and multitask then. When driving a car, you should ALWAYS be scanning the mirrors, not just looking ahead. This means that your eyes are not always going to be directly ahead of you at all times. Are you distracted when you look in the rear view mirror? Yes, but overall that will not make a significant difference in whether you are driving distracted or not. I believe that driving with a cell phone could be something that is licensed. What I mean is that you can be trained to drive with a phone where it does not become the primary focus while you are driving. I rarely do use the phone in my car, but I can't say I never have. Even when talking on the phone, I do the speed limit, merge and do everything else I would normally do...because I do not make the phone call my primary task. I'm still scanning the mirrors and road just like I would without the phone. In fact, I'm prepared to drop the phone if the situation on the road demands it. So what's my point? I believe that safe driving with a phone can and does happen, but perhaps we do need to go after the people who are breaking the original law which was distracted driving. Those of us that aren't impacting other drivers shouldn't be affected.

You are correct. In this order of priority: 1) Aviate 2) Navigate 3) Communicate. Unfortunately they don't teach drivers that. I'd just as soon give up talking on the phone than try and teach the masses of already challenged drivers what to do.