Sep 23 2008
Don’t Text and Drive
It used to be “don’t drink and drive.” That still holds true but now there is something on the road even more dangerous than a driver who has been drinking. Texting and Driving is a greater threat to other drivers than drinking and driving. This finding is according to research done by the British Transport Research Laboratory (TRL).
TRL has found that control of steering is practically zip while texting with 91% worse than normal steering control. Those who have been found to be smoking marijuana only had a 35% worse than normal steering ability. Reaction speeds are slower and drifting across lanes happens at a greater frequency. Following distances were also greatly compromised as focus is on the screen of the phone and not on the vehicle in front of the driver.
Then end conclusion of the study by the TRL is DONT TEXT AND DRIVE.
Texting is obviouslly more dangerous than cell phone talk use, but, there is now a cb radio for truckers to assist in this problem. Cobra cb radios has created the first “bluetooth cb radio”. Truckers talking on their cb radios can simply hit a button on the microphone, which allows them the ability to answer cell phone traffic using the microphone of their cb radio.
Maybe they will come out with “Speech to Text” voice technology so people can speak what they want to text.