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Warn - USA - Talking and Driving - Sans Phone - Still Dangerous
Cellphones aren't the only distraction for drivers
USA -The Car Connection -13 Feb 2006: -- A new report suggests that in-car conversations can be just as dangerous as using a cellphone while driving, researchers at the University of Michigan say... The school's Transportation Research Institute equipped 36 cars with video cameras and studied the footage while comparing it to vehicle movement... What they found was that more than a third of the time, drivers were talking (15 percent of the video clips observed), grooming themselves (6.5 percent), using a cell phone (5 percent), or eating and drinking (2 percent)... And compared to observations of drivers talking on cell phones, the study found that proper steering and lane discipline were about the same for drivers talking to a passenger or talking on a phone... All forms of "non-driving" behavior had some negative impact on safety, the researchers report, mostly in steering inputs... Women and drivers younger than 30 were more likely to engage in distracting behavior than other subjects, the study also said...
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