RWD vs. FWD in snow and ice

pawn, loathesome, credible

Just checking back in with you, didn't want to leave you hanging.

The NSC report is only available for purchase online, so I guess you either subscribe to Injury Insights and read the Feb-March 2003 issue, or were interested enough to purchase the study, so I applaud your diligence in this important matter. I mean, I'm sure you wouldn't lie about reading the study, or your claim that there was an analysis of cell vs pbuttenger conversation.

There were plenty of other studies and articles available through a quick search, like the one below, that shows that in car conversation is the leading cause of driver distraction, contrary to the ridiculous and possibly fabricated statement in the article you provided "...there was no impairment of drivers who either conversed with a pbuttenger or who listened to the radio or to books on tape.". No impairment, that's a pretty bold statement.

Anyway, in either case, I'll leave it at that: you have provided no logical reasoning behind your implied claim that there's a difference between equivalent in car and handsfree cell conversations. I am sticking with common sense which yields there being no difference whatsoever.

"In what were described as preliminary estimates, the study found that the most common distraction - 29% of the cases - was an outside person, object or event. Using a cell phone was ranked eighth as a source of distraction, at 1.5%."

"In a follow-up study, the researchers put cameras for one week in the vehicles of 70 volunteers in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The researchers announced in August 2003 that the most common distraction was conversing, as drivers talked with pbuttengers 15% of the time but talked on a cell only 1% of the time. The follow-up study did not attempt to find which distractions are most likely to lead to crashes."