Study: Hands-free Phones Still Distract Drivers
According a USA Today report, a study by a Pittsburgh scientist
on the effects of driving while answering questions found
that simply hearing a cellular phone call may distract drivers.
The study, conducted by Marcel Just, director of the Center
for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University,
monitored the brain activities of 29 people who drove a simulated
vehicle while choosing whether auditory statements were false
or true, USA Today reported.
Driving and listening at the same time resulted in a "significant
deterioration in driving accuracy," Just and other authors
said in the most recent publication of the journal "Brain
Research."
The study reportedly has raised concerns about whether banning
hand-held cellphones is enough to keep drivers focused.
(March 11, 2008)
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