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April 23, 2013 07:05 pm -05

For Drivers, Voice-to-Text Is Also Dangerous

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If you wear your phone’s headset while driving to send voice-activated text messages, you may be putting yourself and other drivers in danger. A new study from researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University found that sending text messages via voice while driving is just as dangerous as texting with fingers.

About 35% of drivers admit to reading a text or email while driving and 26% admit to typing one, according to data from AAA, a national drivers’ organization.

The team, lead by Christine Yager, compared voice-to-text and traditional texting on a handheld device in an actual driving environment. They asked 43 participants to first drive along a test track without any electronic devices present and then repeat the drive while texting and then finally send text messages while using a speech-to-text device. Read more...

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