SAFETY AND SECURITY This chapter concerns safety and security — safety in the sense of maintaining your usual standard of driving while using a cellular phone, how cellular improves safety, and in safeguarding your phone equipment; and security in the sense of guarding the privacy of your conversations. SAFETY Anything that distracts you from driving can be a hazard. A cellular phone, unless it’s used with care, can be just such a distraction. Using a phone at the same time you’re trying to concentrate on the road and traffic conditions can endanger both you and other drivers. For this reason, try not. | The Cellular Connection A Guide to Cellular Telephones Fourth Edition. Robert A. Steuernagel Copyright 2000 John Wiley Sons Inc. ISBNs 0-471-31652-0 Paper 0-471-20340-8 Electronic 11 SAFETY AND SECURITY This chapter concerns safety and security safety in the sense of maintaining your usual standard of driving while using a cellular phone how cellular improves safety and in safeguarding your phone equipment and security in the sense of guarding the privacy of your conversations. SAFETY Anything that distracts you from driving can be a hazard. A cellular phone unless it s used with care can be just such a distraction. Using a phone at the same time you re trying to concentrate on the road and traffic conditions can endanger both you and other drivers. For this reason try not to dial a number while you re moving. Dialing takes a lot more attention than you think your mind eyes and hands are diverted from controlling your vehicle. The designers of phones have included features to make the equipment safer take full advantage of what they have provided. One thing that makes cellular phones smart is their memories. Some phones can store ninety-nine or more numbers. Recalling these numbers requires only the pressing of a couple of keys and then pressing the SND key to set the dialing process in motion. Even so your attention can waver during the few seconds it takes. 107 108 SAFETY AND SECURITY If you must make a keypad entry while in motion use the handset in its cradle if you have one. This position in the case of a permanent or semipermanent installation is more or less in your line of sight with the road. Leaving the handset in place at least until your call goes through ensures that you have two hands free for as long as possible. Some of the phones and add-ons recommended in Chapter 9 Options and Accessories make driving while using the phone less of a risk to yourself and others. These safety-oriented devices include phones that place the keypad directly in your .
