Every day people are putting their own lives, as well as the lives of other people on the road, at risk; are you one of the people who think that they are being safe, but are just as dangerous as everyone else is? Let's find out, shall we?

Are you driving around with your cell phone switched on? There's nothing wrong with that, so long as you pull over to the side of the road when taking or making a call. That's one of the safer ways to use a mobile phone when you're out and about in the car; but other people have fallen for the 'hands-free' method as a way to talk and drive at the same time. Do you think that's the safe option? Many do, and that's why they're putting lives at risk.

People are putting far too much confidence in to a bit of technology that isn't, in most cases, up to the job that it's designed for. Have you ever tried using a hands-free headset and discovered that you couldn't quite hear the person on the other end of the line? Have you gone in to a deep conversation, and because you knew you were 'safe' to talk, you were on the phone longer than you would have been if you pulled over?

The thing is, even though you have both hands on the wheel, you're going to be just as distracted as you would be if you were holding the phone; here's why: most headsets are poor quality products that create more problems than they solve. Have you noticed how other sounds still manage to make their way in to your conversations? Do you struggle to make out what the person is saying? Do you have to share a hands-free set, and you forget that the settings aren't the ones you need; meaning you get a sudden blast of sound when you answer the phone?

There is an answer to all of those problems, and if you have a Blackberry phone you could be about to make your life a lot safer.

Soundid have specifically designed a Blackberry headset - the Sound ID 5 Series with its Earprint technology - to eliminate the distractions that are inherent in so many of the other 'safe' hands-free headsets. These Blackberry Bluetooth headsets use new advances in audio technology to allow you to hear the person on the other end of the line a lot clearer; but there is more.

You can filter out all of the background noises - on both ends of the call - that were causing you to strain to pick out the conversation, and you remember how dangerous that distraction could be, right? If you have kids in the car, you will have noticed that the background sound of them can take your mind off the road for an instant, and an instant is all that it takes to become a statistic. Now, imagine having that sort of sound from the other end of the call, too.

Can you see how risky that background distraction is? That is no longer a problem if you have a Blackberry headset from Soundid.

Then there is the problem of the settings that you have to remember to adjust, isn't there? Well, there are two solutions to that problem: get more than one hands-free headset, and have them individually set up; or, use just one of the Blackberry Bluetooth headsets, and save the setting so that you can have the perfect volume and noise cancellation settings for you.

It really is a bit of a 'no-brainer', isn't it?

So, will your cell phone kill you?

If you use an inferior headset, and put far too much trust in it, then you could fall in to a false sense of security, and that's liable to lead to distractions. If you have a headset that genuinely cuts out background sounds, and you use it sensibly, then there's no reason why you shouldn't be safe; if you do have to make or take an urgent call, when you have no place to pull over on the side of the road, that is. Visit http://www.soundid.com/ to find out more.