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Utah study says cell-phone drivers distracted
by RCR News
27/01/2003
WASHINGTON—A new study says cell-phone users drive “blind” and that hands-free phones are just as bad as handheld units.
University of Utah researchers, updating earlier work on driving distraction in a study being published in the March 2003 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, said motorists are more accident prone and slower to react when talking on mobile phones.
“Even when participants (drivers) are directing their gaze at objects in the driving environment, they may fail to ‘see’ them because attention is directed elsewhere,” said research psychologists David Strayer, Frank Drews and William Johnston.
Other studies tend to back up the latest University of Utah research data.
The mobile phone industry promotes education as the key to curbing driver distraction.
Read the full article at RCR Wireless News
Links:
Press Release
Research Article (PDF file)
Drive Simulator
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