After three years of study, Utah researchers has come out with a lesser-known truth that use of Cellphone while driving is as harmful as drunken driving. Now you have no locus to condemn drunken drivers.
Frank Drews, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah shares:
We found that people are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cellphone as they are when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit.
Handsfree or handsheld - chatting on the phone is as harmful as driving intoxicated, even within the legal limit of 0.08%.
The gist of the study, published in Human Factors says, in-car cellphone users:
• Drove slightly slower.
• Were 9% slower to hit the brakes and 19% slower to resume normal speed after braking.
• Displayed 24% more variation in following distance as their attention shifted between driving and talking.
• Were more likely to crash.
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