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REPORT * USA - Cell phones cause traffic congestion
A new study suggests that drivers using cell phones are a cause of highway congestion, impeding traffic flow and clogging traffic.
Chicago,Ill,USA -Reuters/Truck News (CAN) -3 Jan 2007: -- ... Peter Martin of the University of Utah's Traffic Lab told... In the study, 36 university students drove through six highway situations in various traffic conditions. Half the time they used a hands-free cell phone while the other half the time they remained off the phone. The study found that drivers who talked on the phone made fewer lane changes, drove slower and took longer to get to their destination... In fact, in medium- and high-density traffic flows, drivers were 20% less likely to change lanes... They also spent 25 to 50 seconds longer following slower-moving vehicles before changing to an open lane. And they drove about 2 mph slower than when they were not on the phone... Studies have suggested that as many as 10% of American drivers are on their cell phone at any given time... (Video from YouTube, by debintex002 -April 26, 2007: -- "What happens when you drop your cell phone?" My mother was driving her truck last December and was hit by a boy who dropped his cell phone)
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