by brian » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:45 pm
August 31, 2010:NY Times
Think the Answer’s Clear? Look Again
- Dr. Redelmeier (with Dr Tibshirani) were the first to study cellphones and automobile crashes. A paper they published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1997 concluded that talking on a cellphone while driving was as dangerous as driving while intoxicated:
They have also:
- * Found that about 25 more people die in crashes on presidential Election Days in the United States than the norm
* Found that there is a 41 percent relative increase in fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday, which he attributed to a combination of fatigue, distraction and alcohol.
* Wrote a study on the psychology around changing lanes in traffic:Why cars in the next lane seem to go faster
August 31, 2010:NY Times [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31profile.html]Think the Answer’s Clear? Look Again[/url]
[list]Dr. Redelmeier (with Dr Tibshirani) were the first to study cellphones and automobile crashes. A paper they published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1997 concluded that talking on a cellphone while driving was as dangerous as driving while intoxicated:
[list][url=http://www.vws.org/documents/10.DrivingandCellphones.pdf]Association between cellular-telephone calls and motor vehicle collisions[/url] 1997
And an update [url=http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/11/1581]Car phones and car crashes: some popular misconceptions[/url] 2001[/list][/list]
They have also:
[list]* Found that about 25 more people die in crashes on presidential Election Days in the United States than the norm
* Found that there is a 41 percent relative increase in fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday, which he attributed to a combination of fatigue, distraction and alcohol.
* Wrote a study on the psychology around changing lanes in traffic:[url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v401/n6748/abs/401035a0.html]Why cars in the next lane seem to go faster[/url][/list]