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Old 07-12-2005, 02:39 PM
Lewis Lewis is offline
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Default Re: Study: 4 Times More Likely to Crash With Phone

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Originally Posted by Schwa
It's not the one-handed driving that's causing problems, it's the mental distraction of engaging in conversation that removes people's attention from driving.
That's the part of these studies which puzzles me: is conversation over a phone more distracting than an involved conversation with 1-4 people in the car with the driver? I don't doubt the claim that cell phone use while driving takes some attention away from driving. I just don't know how much more distracting it is than face to face conversation while driving, especially with some faces...:=)
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