Alpacas Could Drive Better
Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study.
Motorists yakking away, even with handsfree devices, just don’t keep up with the flow of traffic, said study author David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah.
They also crawl about 2 mph slower on commuter-clogged roads than people not on the phone, he said.
They needed a study for this? Don’t we all know that people drive slower when talking on the phone? Don’t we know those people are poster children for highway safety? Heck, they could have done a study on drug rehabilitation and told us that people who enter rehab usually end up back in rehab again. Come on! Let’s study something important, like why alpacas spit or something like that.
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Oh I know, you can’t buy into these stories, but this study was just a waste of time.
The results of the study are obvious and expected - phone-talkers drive slower. Their conclusion that it contributes to making everyone else’s commute longer is completely unsupported.
In actuality, slower drivers during peak commute times help to ease congestion - just the opposite of what this study is claiming.
Be careful how much you buy into this one!