text: Being someone who struggles with anxiety, sitting in the passenger seat while someone is using their phone while driving can be really nerve-wrecking. It's like wow is whatever you have going on in your phone really more important than my life? I don't think so. The passenger should control the driver's music, phone calls, and any other reason they are on their phone, it's really not that hard. It is proven that you cannot focus fully on the road or on other vehicles around you while talking on the phone.