It’s the Conversation, Not the Phone, Silly!

Anirudh (Ani) Kedia
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJan 12, 2021

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two people conversing
Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

Hands-free technology was supposed to make driving safer by allowing people to communicate using their cell phones without engaging their hands in holding the device.

Has this technology made driving safer than it was with handheld phones? Yes. Ample empirical evidence exists to suggest exactly that. Even if we move past empirical evidence, simple common sense would suggest that being…

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Anirudh (Ani) Kedia
The Startup

Sr. UX Researcher at BlinkUX | Research | Design | Psychology | Making UX accessible one article at a time