It was believed that driving while talking on the phone is more dangerous than drinkiing-and-driving. Discovery Channel have a show called "Myth Buster", which experiment varies of myths and believes. Of course, they won’t ignore this myth. In order to test this hypothesis, Mythbusters set up two groups included cellphone-talking and alcoholic. They put this two group in a drive test and measured the time they spent on the track. Both of the two groups were asked to perform S turns, accelerate, and back a car.
For the cellphone group, they were required to drive with only one hand which exactly simulate the situation when people talking on phone and answer certain questions such as "23+25=?" "what did you do last night?" spontaneously. For the other group, they got a easier job which was get drunk and drive. They were under control of state polices and drunk sufficient amount of alcohol. After they reached the illegal line, which was enough to be caought as drinking driving, they needed to pass the test and be measured the time they spent.
The result? Interestingly, cellphone group did fell most of the tests on the road and spent more time than the alcoholic group. Mythbusters came up with the conclusion that people are forced to response those questions and was dictracted from driving. They couldn’t concentrate on driving and it result in serious car accidents each year. But it didn’t mean that drinking driving is safe,either. Instead, Driving while intoxicated is extremely dangerous, too. Alcohol did delay people’s RT(reaction Time) and made them hardly to react and response to the sudden incidents.
Certainly, both of these two behaviors are not encouraged to do.
But how about use a hands-free mobile?
Well, it doesn’t matter what kind of device you use. Because it is interruption that do matter when you are driving. it doesn’t influnce your drive while you use only one hand or with both of your hands. Once you are distracted from driving, it can be vital and risky.
I guess you got the same result when you are chatting with the passengers.
So, just be concentrate.
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