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Articles tagged with: Hands Free and Utah
Few drive well while yakking on cell phones
..ered across the board while driving and talking on a hands-free cell phone. For those who were not supertaskers and who talked on a cell phone while driving the simulators, it took 20 percent longer to hit the brakes when needed and following more
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Attention demands may explain why texting while driving is so dangerous
A timely study in the journal Human Factors suggests why texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger. Human factors/ergonomics researchers at the University of Utah found that texters in a driving simulator had more crashes, responded more slowly to brake lights on cars in front of them, and showed impairment in forward and lateral control than did drivers who talked on a cell phone while driving or drove without texting. more
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National Safety Council Calls for Nationwide Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving
..ints to studies from researchers at the University of Utah that show that hands-free devices do not make cell phone calls while driving safe. Another study demonstrates that talking to passengers, as opposed to talking on a cell phone, actually more
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New Car-Ignition Key can Jam Mobile Phones
..one - even though studies by University of Utah psychologists indicate hands-free phones are just as distracting as handheld phones. Curry agrees that driving while talking on any cell phone "is not safe," but he says the inventors h more
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States Tackle Texting Behind the Wheel
..oung or inexperienced drivers are forbidden to use cell phones at all - even using hands-free speakers or earphones - in 13 states. And 37 states prohibit TV screens from being visible to the driver.Distracted driving was to blame in 80 percent of cr more
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Drivers on Cell Phones = Drunk Driving
..sity of Utah psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on handheld or hands-free cellular phones are as impaired as drunken drivers."We found that people are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cell phone as they more
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Cell Phone Users Drive like Older People
.. known for their 2001 study showing that hands-free cell phones are just as distracting as hand-held cell phones, and for a 2003 study showing that the reason is "inattention blindness," in which motorists can look directly at road conditions but not more
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Driving while using a cellphone impaired road safety - report
..torists are more accident-prone and slower to react when they talk on cellular telephones - even hands-free models - because "inattention blindness" makes the drivers less able to process visual information, University of Utah researchers have report more
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New study says cell phones while driving are a distraction
..f activities, including listening to music and talking on a cell phone - both with and without a hands-free unit. The testers performance was tested and the use of a cell phone was reported as having the greatest impact on the drivers ability." more
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