{"id":7963,"date":"2005-07-12T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/07\/12\/cell-phones-and-car-crashes.html"},"modified":"2005-07-12T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:12:11","slug":"cell_phones_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/cell_phones_and.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell phones and car crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am getting increasingly ambivalent about cell phone use while driving. Three things drive me to that:<\/p>\n

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  1. More and better studies, such as this one<\/a>, which point to increased accident rates from cell phone use in cars (even with hands-free phones).\n
  2. Anecdotally, noting that when I see someone doing something really stupid or oblivious in a car (not stopping or slowing when they should), I usually see a cell phone crammed into their ear.<\/p>\n
  3. Knowing, from my own experience, that dialing a cell phone in the car is distracting work, and leads to sub-optimal driving patterns. Knowing also that having a phone conversation, even hands-free, leads to distraction when called upon to do something non-standard (looking for a landmark or someplace I’ve not been, etc.). (And, no, there’s no one particular or recent incident that comes to mind.)<\/ol>\n

    My company has a policy forbidding cell phone use while driving on company business, even with hands-free sets. Given our safety emphasis, that’s not surprising, even though it’s a policy that gets a lot more lip service than adherence. Corporate life seems too hectic to be out of touch, and life in a multinational company means that phonecons often need to be scheduled during drive times.<\/p>\n

    Still, it’s making me seriously reevaluate my own driving and cell use. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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