I've been wondering, and I ask this as non judgementally as possible, is it safe to record a podcast while driving?
I’ve recorded almost seven hundred of them without a single incident, so I’m going to go with yes. Regular listeners will know I prioritize being safe over anything else. I occasionally will stop talking if I have to focus on driving, and then come back explaining “safety first”.
Wikipedia editors found the citations to support the following statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safety Driving while using a hands-free device is not safer than using a handheld phone to conduct calls, as concluded by case-crossover studies,[1][2] epidemiological,[3][4] simulation,[5] and meta-analysis.[6][7] Those aren't the only ones. The National Safety Council says, https://www.nsc.org/Portals/0/Documents/NewsDocuments/2014-Press-Release-Archive/4-1-2014-DDAM-opinion-poll-results.pdf "More than 30 studies show hands-free devices are no safer than handheld as the brain remains distracted by the cell phone conversation." Additionally, "A study by a University of South Carolina psychology researcher featured in the journal, Experimental Psychology, found that planning to speak and speaking put far more demands on the brain's resources than listening. Measurement of attention levels showed that subjects were four times more distracted while preparing to speak or speaking than when they were listening.[42]" So if anything, podcasting should be worse than just talking on the phone. The National Safety Council has a 22-page whitepaper on this, with a long list of references. https://www.nsc.org/Portals/0/Documents/DistractedDrivingDocuments/Cognitive-Distraction-White-Paper.pdf










