Monday, December 1, 2008
Cell Phones Distract Drivers
Driving and talking on the phone is a bad combination. Studies show that talking on a cell phone is worse than a talkative passenger. Now if you get caught with a cell phone in your hand while you are driving you get a ticket. So people went to the hands free cell phones. However according to a recent Reuters report on a new study published by the Journal of Experimential Psychology: Applied. Even worse, drivers who use mobile phones are as impaired as those who are legally drunk. The university of Utah launched a series of driving-simulation tests to determine that hands-free gadgets such as a Bluetooth headset are just as distracting as holding a phone to your ear. Talkative passengers are better for the driver because they can point out hazards to you. This goes to show that even if someone uses a bluetooth headset it does not prevent you from getting in harms way.
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2 comments:
Well done, Mike. I totally agree with you, because there are so many people who drive and talk on their cell phones. Not cool.
I thought this article was really interesting, I had always wondered how hands free devices actually helped and this article definitely clarified. It was really interesting to hear that people who drive drunk and those who drive while on the phone are just as impaired. It would have been good to have a little more data an perhaps some more hard statistics but overall I learned alot about driving habits.
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