Video: Review: Hands free phone kits for driving within the law

As a campaigning green environmentalist wanting safety on our living streets, steps like these in empowered legislation are welcome, and will embed good behaviour over time. Emma has a rapport and empathy with inventions and it is good to see a glamour girl having a great brain and doing science for a change. This is new territory for TV women. Gromit 2 X

The BlueAnt V1 has UK and AU English available as a download. It picks up my kiwi accent fine.

Turn the phone off when driving - that works only if you don't drive all day or take very few calls.
When you spend a 5 or 6 hours a day on the road, much of it on motorways were you can't just pull over to take a call the phone and hands free become a necessity not a toy. When your work place is your car, juggling, cancelling and adding appointments or answering urgent questions from the office etc are often not things that can wait an hour or two for a call stop.
Regardless of the law, if you ever take calls without a good hands free system you deserve a swift kick before you kill yourself and/or someone else. I have a built in factory blue tooth hands free in my car and also use the Parrot slim when I need to use other cars. It is easy to operate, works very well and can even be put on a table and used for conference calling if necessary.

No Mark I say, stop somewhere safe, even if you are on the motorway, we do have rest area where you can turn off safely and cancelled your appointment..Common sense Mark..

in my line of work i have tried many types of hands free car kits.My research lead me to a brand called IO-PLAY made in the UK with a link to INVICTA COMMUNICATIONS NZ who are the factory authorized Aust & nz agents The installation are so easy ,all plug and play,no cutting of cables,on any vehicles,and YES!! voiding your cars warranty!!!! and the radio is muted and the cellphone audio it comes out of your car speakers,no small speaker mounted so you cant hear the voice from your call By the way ,if you pick up your cell phone,even in stopped traffic, it is no excuse,you will get caught!! My advice,have a good look at IO-PLAY. Installs $120.00 per car,my boss is pleased ,and so is the CEO

I have a blue ant hands free device in my car, only problem is at night time there is a blue flashing light, barely visible during the day, but like a strobe light at night time. Simple solutions a piece of black electrical tape. However now I have to guess when the darn thing is in need of charging!!

Yes the sensible thing would be to pull over and complete the comversation or turn off the mobile phone. There can be no excuse from 01NOV09.

@Den - are you for real? So...just pull over on the motorway? A lot of people rely on their phones these days.....unless you happen to be unemployed....

Excellent work, save lives, save money, you are a genies..no excuses just get there in plenty of times for your appointments and if delayed in anyway stop somewhere safe and cancelled your apointments..common sense folks!..

Why waste money, just pull over and make the call any way. or turn your phone off while driving, or are you one of these people that can't do without your cell phone being on......