One of last week's Kaizen project winners advocated using drive time as call time or as many of you pointed out, to knowingly break company policy by being on the phone while driving.

The ability to place cell calls while in transit is a huge time saver right?

Maybe, however the benefits of a lifetime's worth of productive cell phone calls can be erased in the split second that precedes every car accident. In fact, the New England Journal of Medicine conducted a recent study that concluded driving while talking increases your odds of a crash by four times or roughly the same odds of a driver who is legally intoxicated!

Several countries and many states have enacted legislation that prohibits cell phone use while driving and the trend continues to the point where soon it will be illegal almost everywhere,

"But wait", you say, "I'm safe because I use a hands free device."

Not so.

To be continued...