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To: Bob who wrote (36256)9/25/2000 3:14:59 PM
From: Rande Is  Read Replies (5) of 57584
 
OT> LOL! So if you are going to talk on the phone while driving, you may as well be drunk, too?!?!? If they are one and the same, then that is the message. Where did these scientists go to school?

It is not the cellphone that causes you to crash. If you are alone in the car without the radio on, you can most likely safely handle a phone call while driving on selected "easy" roads.

However, if any of the following are happening WHILE you are talking on the phone and driving, you are an accident waiting to happen:

1. A baby in the backseat

2. A person talking to you

3. Loud music playing

4. Talk radio playing

5. Fiddling with controls

6. Reading map, newspaper, etc.

7. Eating

8. A difficult road or heavy traffic

The real reason that we tend to crash while using cellphones is that our minds are capable of sufficiently handling 2 unrelated tasks. But not 3. Throw in a 3rd task which requires the least bit of attention and you seriously compromise the other 2.

Now if you are talking on the phone trying to find your directions while looking at a map and driving, which of the three do you think will be placed to the back burner of consciousness? And there is your real cause for cell phone accidents.

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