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Be
safe while driving! Don’t hold your phone to your head or
use a headset, be totally “hands free”! We sell &
install Blue Tooth Car Kits from every manufacturer so that you
can be safe.
Here
some statistics on using your phone while driving:
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Text messaging, or “texting” by teens, a driving distraction
related to cellphone use, was the subject of an August 2006 Teens
Today survey conducted by the Liberty Mutual Research Institute
for Safety and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD).
The survey showed that teens considered sending text messages
via cellphones to be their biggest distraction. Of the teens surveyed,
37 percent said that text messaging was extremely or very distracting,
while 20 percent said that they were distracted by their emotional
states and 19 percent said that having friends in the car was
distracting. The January 2007 survey by Nationwide found that
19 percent of motorists say they text message while driving.
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Motorists who use cellphones while driving are four times as likely
to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves, according
to a study of drivers in Perth, Australia, conducted by the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety. The results, published in July 2005,
suggest that banning hand-held phone use will not necessarily
improve safety if drivers simply switch to hand-free phones. The
study found that injury crash risk didn't vary with type of phone.
- Many
studies have shown that using hand-held cellphones while driving
can constitute a hazardous distraction. However, the theory that
hands-free sets are safer has been challenged by the findings
of several studies. A study from researchers at the University
of Utah, published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors,
the quarterly journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society,
concludes that talking on a cellphone while driving is as dangerous
as driving drunk, even if the phone is a hands-free model. An
earlier study by researchers at the university found that motorists
who talked on hands-free cellphones were 18 percent slower in
braking and took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost
when they braked.
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