The benefits of using this communications device while driving appear to be important.
They include benefits to the users, households, social networks, businesses, and communities.
Many of these benefits, which include public health and safety considerations, have not yet been
recognized or quantified. Simple suggestions that drivers can “pull over” on the side of the road
to make calls from cellular phones are unrealistic and, in certain situations, potentially
dangerous. It is not known which of the benefits of cellular phone use would be foregone under
various regulatory scenarios.