If you’ve been reading the NYTimes and Slate.com recently you’ll know that you shouldn’t be talking on your cell phone while driving. The U.S. has withheld findings that talking on a cell phone while driving has very deadly consequences.
“Even with hands-free use, phones suck your brain out of the physical world, fatally distracting you from the road. Second, the effect is as bad as driving drunk. Hands-free phone use can impair driving skills more than intoxication does.” – William Saletan, Slate.com
So once again as a cyclist and motorcyclist who daily has to deal with meandering SUV’s and people intoxicated on their own conversations. . .
Hang it up LA! I thank you and so do all my loved ones. . .
I’ll be back with something more up beat about the garden soon. . .Have a safe and happy summer. ..
Links to the cell phone truth:
Cell phone zombie
LATimes from 2008
Mother Jones
NYtimes article on data withheld by US
Research study recently released
Cell phone use compared with drunk driving
Slate article today. . .
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