text: Although the government thinks the hands free law is going to help the risk of crashes, the hands free law could be much less safe than using your hands. "Incredibly, they also spent less time watching the road, even when they were texting by voice." Stated in the Text Free is No Safer to use while driving. The Texas A&M Transportation institute studied people driving a closed course under three conditions: while texting by hand, while texting by voice, and by not texting at all. It seems as if texting by voice should be safer than looking at your phone, but studies show that texting by voice and by looking at your phone, the reaction time is still the same.