People have to "walk the line" for a sobriety test because you shouldn't drive if you can't walk. But driving may be just as dangerous if you plan to talk.
A study published today is providing the first peer-reviewed scientific evidence that driving and talking on a cell phone could be just as bad as drinking and driving.
"If you do a carefully controlled study where you equate for the amount of time that people are driving and the driving conditions, you're actually worse off when you are using a cell phone than when you're legally drunk," says David Strayer, a psychologist at the University of Utah.
Strayer had announced some preliminary data from his study at a scientific meeting in 2003. It took until now for the study to be completed, undergo review by other researchers and finally be published. The work builds on previous research of his which ...
