From ConsumerReports.org:"According to a survey by AAA and Seventeen magazine, 61 percent of 16- and 17-year-olds admit to risky driving habits and of those, 46 percent say they text while driving. Fifty-one percent of those teens say they drive while talking on their cell phones.
Studies have shown that a person using a cell phone while driving, hands-free or not, is four times more likely to crash and, as a result, land in the hospital, and that using a cell phone while driving is as risky as driving drunk."
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Phone condom ($1.99) is a plastic bag that zips up and holds the phone so that you don't text and drive - NYT http://goo.gl/u0mRA
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