Disagree with some of the points above.

Eating fruit is not a temporary mental distraction to driving, as your mind can still be adequately focussed on driving.
People on the phone however, 99% of the time, are completely fucking oblivious to everyone else on the roads.......especially what seems to be the norm, any female over about 45 in any car worth more than around 10k ie Merc, BMW, Porsche's especially....not forgetting X5's.

I'm not saying that some people can't drive adequately while on the phone, I daresay many can, but not everyone on here can drive like a lot of the guys with track experience or high performance experience either.

Oh...and in case you hadn't noticed, they'r econsidering a ban on smoking in cars anyway......

If the phone call in the car is THAT important, then you NEED to stop, due to what the concern over the call is..

Point given, rant over