Even hands-free cellphone conversation equally distracts drivers
A University of Utah professor is making public in the Journal of Experimental Psychology the results of a study on how cellphones distract drivers according to this Reuters story:
Drivers who use a cellphone, even with a ''hands-free'' device, suffer from a kind of tunnel vision that endangers themselves and others, US researchers said yesterday.
...The finding adds to a series of similar studies - most notably a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine report that found talking on a phone while driving quadrupled the risk of accident.