Driving Us to Distraction

摘要

Most of us are neither rnpilots nor astronauts. We are not trained to steer large, hurtling hulks of steel and gasoline while manipulating small computers. So there's something blindingly obvious about the risks of textingrnwhile driving. Yet research is beginning to show that driving while simply talking on a cell phone-including using hands-free technology-can prove dangerous, even deadly.rnIn late July, the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) released hundreds of pages of a previously buried 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Ad-rnministration (NHTSA) study that identified the cell phone as a serious safety hazard when used on the road.