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Cellphone Calls Mangle Driving SkillsPosted on Aug 14, 2006
Driving while talking on your cell cuts by half the brain’s ability to recognize and respond to traffic conditions, according to a study. Says a researcher: “Twentysomethings on a cellphone have the same reaction time as 70-year-olds.”
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Report thisBy Todd, August 15, 2006 at 6:22 am #
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Driving while talking on a cell phone should be illegal. Even when an accident isn’t caused, how many of us have been behind a driver who appears to be in total la-la land, and as you finally pass them they are chatting away, completely oblivious to anything around them?
A couple of years ago, my town tried to pass a ban on speaking on a cell phone while driving through a school zone. When I mentioned to the Mayor at the town meeting that not 6 months previously he had been campaigning out in front of the school, during the morning rush / drop off, and that he was even more distracting than a cell phone.
And referencing the photo accompanying the article, “don’t do this anymore”, I stopped driving on the right side of the car when I moved back from the UK!
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