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Are you saying you can't drive a car if passengers are talking?

If that's the case, maybe a driver's license isn't your thing?

That's a hypothesis but not evidence. I can present a counter-hypothesis: I fall asleep while listening to music (or staying in silence). Listening to spoken word keeps me awake or at least helps me notice that I'm getting tired.

1.2 million people die in road accidents, and most of them are children and young people. Even more are seriously injured.

People listen to talk radio while driving all the time

If there were any substantial evidence of this, they would have shutdown the entire A.M. spectrum 50 years ago.