Car Talk

	Cell Phone Users Drive Like Old Folks
	New NHTSA Cell Study Results
	The real reason cars and cellphones do not mix
	1st Evidence of Effects of Cell Phone Use on Injury Crashes
	Multitasking: You can't pay full attention to both sights and sounds
	Drivers on Cell Phones Kill Thousands, Snarl Traffic
	100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study Tracks Drivers for a Year
	Cell Phone Users Drive like Old Folks
	A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver
	Industry Pushes Headsets In Cars, Agency Sees Danger Hands-Free Cellphones May Be No Safer Than Hand-Held After initially fighting such laws, the nation's cellphone carriers are joining with car makers to promote the voluntary use of headsets to address concerns about the safety of talking on the phone while driving. States and towns across the country are considering ways to legislate the practice. But new research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and others suggests that hands-free devices may actually add to the overall risk.
	Driving While Distracted Between 4,000 and 8,000 crashes related to "distracted driving"—which includes the use of cell phones—occur daily in the United States; in a year, they contribute to as many as one-half of the 6 million U.S. crashes reported annually. Now, researchers are looking into exactly why talking on cell phones affects driving.
	How Dangerous is Driving with a Mobile Phone? Benchmarking the Impairment of Alcohol This study from the Transport Research Laboratory in England concludes that driving behavior is impaired more during a phone conversation than by having a blood alcohol level at the UK legal limit (800mg/100ml).
	Inattention Blindness Behind the Wheel: Cell Phone Induced Failures of Visual Attention during Simulated Driving This study out of the University of Utah suggests that the impairment of driving performance produced by cell phone conversations is mediated, at least in part, by reduced attention to visual inputs.
	"Driven to Distraction: Dual Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Phone" David Strayer from the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City has published this paper which will appear in the November issue of Psychological Science. Read the abstract or order a pre-print here.
	ICBC Driver Distractions Research Our neighbors to the north -- the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) -- have published a study that shows that "a driver's performance is significantly undermined when the motorist is engaged in a conversation on a hands-free cellular phone." Take that, AAA.
	Safeguards At Risk: John Graham and Corporate America's Back Door to the Bush White House In this excerpt from a Public Citizens report, John Graham's support of cell phone usuage while driving is examined, citing Car Talk's very own Click and Clack as "material witnesses."
	Transportation Safety Laboratory of Universite de Montreal Researchers presented the results of a major epidemiological study on the risks of road accidents and the use of wireless telephones. The "we hate to say we told you so, but we told you so" results this way.
	The Facts from cars.com What? You don't care to spend your weekend wading through reams of reports from NHTSA and the New England Journal of Medicine? Can't say that we blame you. Check out the eminently readable facts from our pals at cars.com.
	The Journal of Applied Experimental Psychology How do you measure paying attention? The geeks at this frighteningly-named professional journal have it figured out. Here's proof that talking while driving is a distraction.
	What the Feds Say Our Federal government, using its extensive resources wisely and thoughtfully? We're as amazed as you! NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, did one of the first studies on this topic. Here are their findings.
	The New England Journal of Medicine Study The New England Journal of Medicine is surrounded by an aura of respect and responsibility that it almost certainly doesn't deserve. Especially now that we've linked to them. Here's their oft-quoted study that shows that driving and talking can be as dangerous as drinking and driving.
	AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Cell Phone Study The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety agrees that we're right.
	The Economics of Regulating Cellular Phones in Vehicles Here's an economic analysis that shows the enormous value to the economy of driving and talking. (As long as we don't factor in the injuries, lost lives, pain and suffering of all those accidents, that is!)
	The Car Talk Poll Should it be legal to talk on the phone while driving? Here's what you thought.

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