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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5751059" data-attributes="member: 67606">What about my case - my car will make my phone calls for me, and I can speak through a microphone built into the center console, and hear my conversation partner through my stereo.If I get into an accident while speaking through my bluetooth-connected car and cell phone, and someone checks my cell records - I was certainly making a phone call.  But at no time did I touch my phone to dial or receive a call.  Heck, my car can even sent rudimentary text messages via voice-directed commands.  I could conceivably send a text message moments before getting into an accident, and be cited for texting while driving, without ever touching my phone.Additionally, I talk to myself ALL the time.  Especially while driving.  I'm constantly spewing out game ideas, running over code that gave me fits at work that day, whatever - out loud.  If there was a law that hands-free calling was a citation, a particularly diligent officer could pull me over, and cite me for making a hands-free phone call because he saw me talking to myself and assumed I was addressing someone through my phone.My point with all of this is that it's a mess.  You can't possibly enforce a hands-free phone call ban.  And if you try, you're only proving how ridiculous such a ban would be in the first place.</blockquote>