The preferred initiator of such a conversation, drivers say, is a spouse or personal physician, followed by adult children or close friends.
To the Editor: An issue glaringly absent from the conversation about driver cellphone use is driver competence.
These are generally not the conditions for affectionate conversation between driver and navigator.
Throughout the 1970s, Cannes became a kind of Mecca for the best of US cinema, with MASH, The Conversation, Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now ascending to the winner's rostrum.
You know, "Dog Day Afternoon," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "The Conversation," "Taxi Driver".
"Driving a cab is a very isolating experience as there's no longer a lot of conversation between drivers and passengers.
They enjoy the races in two basic ways: with the assistance of the favored beer, Budweiser, or certain plants and chemicals, they view the 200-lap, three-hour race as a streaming video of color and sound, a "trip"; or with the assistance of a radio scanning the conversations between driver and crew, they can get so deep into the race they squirm to avoid hitting the wall.
In particular, people were just beginning to consider the impact of cell phone conversations on driver distraction.
However, when passengers in the car were engaged in loud conversation, teen drivers were six times more likely to have a serious incident.
So far, the research indicates that the cognitive distraction of having a hands-free phone conversation causes drivers to miss the important visual and audio cues that would ordinarily help you avoid a crash.
