Caution: Yackety drivers ahead
By Greg Kline
Sunday September 11, 2005
by John Dixon
University of Illinois psychology Professor Art Kramer, left, and postdoctoral researcher Tate Kubose show the driving simulator they use at the Beckman Institute in Urbana.
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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