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UER Forum > Private Boards Index > News Stories Discussion > Even hands free is dangerous (Viewed 1511 times)
Ricky_from_TV 


Location: Peterborough, Ontario
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I'm going to try and refuckulate it

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Even hands free is dangerous
< on 3/15/2013 5:19 PM >
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http://www.cbc.ca/...calls-driving.html


The part of the brain needed to make safe left-hand turns largely shuts off during a cellphone conversation — even if the phone is a hands-free device, a group of Toronto researchers have found.

The results of a brain-imaging study led by Tom A. Schweizer, director of the neuroscience research program at St. Michael's Hospital, may explain statistics that show drivers using hands-free phones are just as likely to be involved in collisions as those using hand-held phones.

"Hands-free isn't brains-free," Schweizer said in an interview Thursday. "You're still distracting the individual. You're still processing information, which could take [brain] resources away from the primary task of driving."

The study was published Thursday online in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Using hand-held cellphones while driving is banned under provincial and territorial laws across Canada, but using hands-free devices is still allowed.

Schweizer said he and his colleagues undertook their study after noticing statistics showing that a large proportion of collisions tend to involve left-hand turns.

That got them interested in determining what areas of the brain were activated during different driving maneouvers.

A good technique for measuring brain activity during different tasks is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures the blood flow to different areas of the brain in real-time — pointing to the areas that are activated and working the hardest.

Because small, portable fMRI scanners don't yet exist to scan drivers inside their vehicles, Schweizer and his colleagues spent 1 ½ years setting up a high-quality driving simulator inside an fMRI machine at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

They recruited seven women and nine men between the ages of 20 and 30 and scanned their brains while they were inside the driving simulator. The volunteers had to drive straight ahead as well as make right and left turns, with and without oncoming traffic. In some cases, they had to answer true or false questions such as "Does a triangle have four sides?" while driving, to mimic a hands-free cellphone conversation."


Grrr, as much as this may be true why shouldn't i be allowed to use my cell phone in the car, Drivng is dangerous, but there becomes a point where you can't save everyone.





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jeepdave 


Location: Anderson, SC
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It's also a gun.

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Re: Even hands free is dangerous
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I take these studies with a grain of salt. No matter how good a simulation is, the subject still knows it's just a simulation. And I don't know about you but I am able to concentrate more on the task that has more risk. Like a left turn.




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Ricky_from_TV 


Location: Peterborough, Ontario
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I'm going to try and refuckulate it

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Re: Even hands free is dangerous
< Reply # 2 on 3/15/2013 9:49 PM >
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Posted by jeepdave
I take these studies with a grain of salt. No matter how good a simulation is, the subject still knows it's just a simulation. And I don't know about you but I am able to concentrate more on the task that has more risk. Like a left turn.


Exactly like tell the person on the phone to hang on for a second. It's not rocket science




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