When we talk on the cell phone while driving, the conversation take so much of the attention that it does not help that we have a hands-free solution.
When we talk on the cell phone while driving, the conversation take so much of the attention that it does not help that we have a hands-free solution.
Researchers from the University of Sussex in England have found that conversations can cause the driver begins to visualize the contents of the conversation, writes VG. It occupies the brain capacity that is commonly used to run and observe traffic.
In the study, 20 men and 40 women being filmed as they sat behind the wheel. A group drove without interference, while another group communicated with a man’s voice through a loudspeaker and a microphone placed in the car.
Those who let themselves engage in conversation, spent nearly a full second more to react to events in traffic, compared with those who had no other duties than to drive. Those who “talked on the cell phone” were also asked questions about events from earlier that day. Then they used only a quarter of the normal attention to what was happening around them in traffic.
Sigmund Clementz in insurance If no doubt that phone calls can distract drivers.
– We’re not surprised that the hands-free mobile can be just as distracting to drivers as the handheld. It is so amazing little it takes before a motorist to lose control or react too late, says Clementz.
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