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human
ELI5: If it's illegal to use cellphones while driving for non hands free calling, why is it legal for truck drivers to use radios for communicating in the same way?
gpt
The fear with a cell phone is that you have to look at it while you use it, even for a short period of time. A truck driver is so use to picking up the radio it is literally muscle memory for them to do that task. While there is a learning curve for the truck driver it is something that becomes safer as they train the muscle memory. With your cell phone, unless it isn't a touch screen, there is no tactile feakback. Therfore it is much harder, if not impossible, to gain that muscle memory in doing the task. Even worse, as you do it over time you become overconfident in your "ability" to use it. You become less concise as you gain this bad habit of using it. Whereas before you may have answered it in a safer situation such as a stoplight or on an open road, now you overconfidence will lead you to answer it in less safe situation like heavy traffic or poor weather.