I love doing that in grocery stores with a very inconspiculous earpiece. The looks you get are priceless. :thumbsup

No, I think they'd be impressed with your lack of free speech and use of mass media propaganda. Every single person outside the USA will agree with me, as will most inside the US.

I read your post wrong, thought you said "from the 40's" not "in the 40's". A nazi soldier coming to 2004 America would feel right at home.

good idea. i myself can barely drive and talk at the same time. and when i'm on the phone i frequently miss exits or turns altogether.

Most drunk drivers don't have accidents either. They're just a hell of a lot more likely to. Studies have been done. The results are in, and have been, for a long time.

http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Drive-Now/trl-study.pdf
The Transport Research Laboratory of England concluded that driving while having a conversation on the phone impairs one's driving more than having a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.

http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Drive-...v-release.html
Montreal, February 7, 2001 -- Researchers at the Transportation Safety Laboratory of Universite de Montreal today presented the results of a major epidemiological study on the risks of road accidents and the use of wireless telephones.

Overall, the study shows that both male and female wireless telephone users have a 38% higher risk of accident compared with the nonusers of the same gender. Relative risk increases with frequency of cell phone use; the risk of accident for heavy users (more than 135 calls made per month) is about twice the risk for light users (fewer than 10 calls made per month). These results take into account other accident risk factors, including driver age and the year of the accident, and driving habits, such as kilometers driven annually and night driving.

http://www.apa.org/journals/xap/xap6131.html
For a really wordy and in depth study from the American Psychological Association.

http://www.psych.utah.edu/AppliedCog...PS-Reprint.pdf
Dual-task studies assessed the effects of cellular-phone conversations on performance of a simulted driving task. Performance was not disrupted by listening to radio broadcasts or listening to a book on tape. Nor was it disrupted by a continuous shadowing task using a handheld phone, ruling out, in this case, dual-task interpretations assosciated with holding the phone, listening, or speaking. However, significant interference was observed in a word-generation variant of the shadowing task, and this deficit increased with the difficulty of driving. Moreover, unconstrained conversations using either a handheld or a hands-free cell phone resulted in a twofold increase in the failure to detect simulated traffic signals and slower reactions to those signals that were detected. We suggest that cellular-phone use disrupts performance by diverting attention to an engaging cognitive contexty other than the one immediately associated with driving.

Plenty more of this stuff available if you're only prepared to look for it.