Give him a medal 503saying : I have read what was actually written, and that isn't it. What WAS actually written was :- # The situation was that a car towing a tatty old camping trailer was...
Alex Heney
You haven`t noticed it conciously, but it does happen. It`s tiny little fractions of a second, milliseconds - nothing more. but throw a few 2-3 millisecond gaps per second into audio, and your brain has to work a LOT harder to work out what has been said. And since there is only so much brain to go round, then whatever else you`re doing at the time has to suffer. Nobody would tollerate noticible drop-out regularly, but the tiny silences that you get now aren`t noticible by your concious brain, hence the problem. I think the study was reported in New Scientist, among other places. IIRC the study was only done on a a normal mobile phone - throw a second radio link into the equation (the bluetooth hands free kit) and I`d guess the problem would become even worse.
I`d be interested to see some stats about accidents with hands-free kits in use at the time. I`m sure that a honest study would prove a correlation between the use of a handsfree kit and an increased risk of an RTC. How big a link i`m not sure, but i`d guess it`d be fairly significant. I`d be intrigued to know if it approaches (or even increases) the added risk of using a mobile phone without a hands free kit.
