Monday, December 1, 2008 East Central Illinois

Caution: Yackety drivers ahead

By Greg Kline
Sunday, September 11, 2005 2:00 PM CDT

When University of Illinois researchers had people talk on a cellphone while doing computer tasks designed to simulate driving, they found that hands-free phones were just as distracting as the handheld version.

Now, they've repeated the experiment – and the results – in an actual car.

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