Comments on: AAA Study Finds Using a Cell Phone Hands-Free is no Safer than Using a Handheld http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/aaa-study-finds-using-a-cell-phone-hands-free-is-no-safer-than-using-a-handheld/ Where motorcycles are more than just a passion ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: DrFaulken http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/aaa-study-finds-using-a-cell-phone-hands-free-is-no-safer-than-using-a-handheld/#comment-1473 DrFaulken Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:15:04 +0000 http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/aaa-study-finds-using-a-cell-phone-hands-free-is-no-safer-than-using-a-handheld/#comment-1473 I have seen this type of data before. What is often left out is that talking to passengers, singing along to music, parents looking at children in the car, adjusting the radio/climate controls, etc is just as disruptive. The issue isn't that your attention is split between a mobile phone and driving, the issue is that the brain is spent doing multiple things for a protracted period of time. Someone laughing and singing with their friends in the car for five minutes is just as distracted as someone talking on the phone the same amount of time. I have seen this type of data before. What is often left out is that talking to passengers, singing along to music, parents looking at children in the car, adjusting the radio/climate controls, etc is just as disruptive.

The issue isn’t that your attention is split between a mobile phone and driving, the issue is that the brain is spent doing multiple things for a protracted period of time.

Someone laughing and singing with their friends in the car for five minutes is just as distracted as someone talking on the phone the same amount of time.

]]> By: sideout http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/aaa-study-finds-using-a-cell-phone-hands-free-is-no-safer-than-using-a-handheld/#comment-1474 sideout Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:58:43 +0000 http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/aaa-study-finds-using-a-cell-phone-hands-free-is-no-safer-than-using-a-handheld/#comment-1474 You are probably right. Problem is though - people mostly drive by themselves. And a cell phone is pretty much the first thing they use in order to entertain themselves while sitting in traffic. We have got to promote self sufficiency :). You are probably right.
Problem is though - people mostly drive by themselves. And a cell phone is pretty much the first thing they use in order to entertain themselves while sitting in traffic.
We have got to promote self sufficiency :).

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