Reply to post: Re: Only Lab-based tests?

Banning handheld phone use by drivers had NO effect on accident rate - study

Stacy

Re: Only Lab-based tests?

But the Mythbusters experiment had the wrong title.

It should have been 'Is it safe to do complex mathematics whilst driving'. There was no 'chat' on the phone with the person driving being able to day 'I can't answer that right now' or 'This is getting complex I'll call you back. As such it was a biased experiment.

If I am on my hands free and I can't talk because of the traffic, I don't. The experiment was set up in such a way that there was only outcome. If you had the person sitting in the car with you asking the same complex questions and demanding the answers without exception then you would have had the same result.

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