User's Manual

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Driving Safety Tips
“Safety is your most important call!”
Your Motorola wireless telephone gives you the
powerful ability to communicate by voice — almost
anywhere, anytime, wherever wireless phone
service is available and safe conditions allow. But an
important responsibility accompanies that benefits
of wireless phones, one that every user must
uphold.
When driving a car, driving is your first responsibility.
If you find it necessary to use your wireless phone
while behind the wheel of a car, practice good
common sense and remember the following tips:
• Get to know your Motorola wireless phone and its
features such as speed dial and redial. If
available, these features help you to place your
call without taking your attention off the road.
• When available, use a hands-free device. If
possible, add an additional layer of convenience
to your wireless phone with one of the many
Motorola Original hands-free accessories
available today.
• Position your wireless phone within easy reach.
Be able to access your wireless phone without
removing your eyes from the road. If you receive
an incoming call at an inconvenient time, if
possible, let your voice mail answer it for you.
• 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, ice, and even heavy traffic can
be hazardous.
• If you receive an incoming call at an inconvenient
time do not take notes or look up phone numbers
while driving. Jotting down a “to do” list or going
through your address book takes attention away
from your primary responsibility — driving safely.
• Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible,
place calls when you are not moving or before
pulling into traffic. Try to plan calls when your car
will be stationary. If you need to make a call while
moving, dial only a few numbers, check the road
and your mirrors, then continue.
• Do not engage in stressful or emotional
conversations that may be distracting. Make
people you are talking with aware you are driving
and suspend conversations which have the
potential to divert your attention away from the
road.
• Your phone can perform many other functions
besides allowing you to make and receive calls.
Do not let these features distract you from driving.
Use them only when it is safe to do so.