XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   Patty Winter  wrote:   
   >   
   > I've even experienced that at home. I was on the phone to a friend back   
   > East one day when we had the latest in a morning-long series of earth-   
   > quakes. She was talking and didn't hear me say, "Hang on...wait." That   
   > inherent lack of awareness of local events by the person on the other end   
   > of the phone can have much worse consequences when you're driving a car.   
      
   The visual and audio cues of passengers are absent when the other person is   
   on the other end of a phone call. Of course nospam and the resident troll   
   will ignore or downplay this because it doesn't fit their narrative. ; )   
      
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