User's Guide

For Your Safety 144
• Pull off the road and park before making or answering a call if driving conditions
or the law require it.
10 Driver Safety Tips
Your wireless device gives you the powerful ability to communicate by voice almost
anywhere, anytime. An important responsibility accompanies the benefits of
wireless devices, one that every user must uphold. When operating a car, driving is
your first responsibility. When using your wireless device behind the wheel of a car,
practice good common sense and remember the following tips:
1. Get to know your wireless device and its features, such as speed dial and redial.
Carefully read your instruction manual and learn to take advantage of valuable
features most devices offer, including automatic redial and memory. Also, work
to memorize the device keypad so you can use the speed dial function without
taking your attention off the road.
2. When available, use a hands-free device. A number of hands-free wireless device
accessories are readily available today. Whether you choose an installed mounted
device for your wireless device or a speaker phone accessory, take advantage of
these devices if available to you.
3. Make sure you place your wireless device within easy reach and where you can
reach it without removing your eyes from the road. If you get an incoming call at
an inconvenient time, if possible, let your voicemail answer it for you.
4. Suspend conversations during hazardous driving conditions or situations. Let the
person you are speaking with know you are driving; if necessary, suspend the call
in heavy traffic or hazardous weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, and ice can
be hazardous, but so is heavy traffic. As a driver, your first responsibility is to pay
attention to the road.
5. Don’t take notes or look up phone numbers while driving. If you are reading an
address book or business card, or writing a “to-do” list while driving a car, you are
not watching where you are going. It is common sense. Do not get caught in a
dangerous situation because you are reading or writing and not paying attention
to the road or nearby vehicles.
6. Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, place calls when you are not
moving or before pulling into traffic. Try to plan your calls before you begin your
trip or attempt to coincide your calls with times you may be stopped at a stop
sign, red light, or otherwise stationary. But if you need to dial while driving, follow
this simple tip -- dial only a few numbers, check the road and your mirrors, then
continue.