Teen Cell Phone Talking, Make Adults Hope They’re Walking

Yup, teen drivers are getting yet another con thrown against their driving abilities. This time Ford is the big meanie behind it. Looks like Ford did a study of both teens and adults driving in a simulator (wonder if the teens got a Focus and the adults the Mustang.) They both did fairly well until a cell phone conversation was added to the mix. The adults slipped a little more then a bakers dozen but, man, did the teens just fall apart! Yikes, I’m sure glad I don’t have to deal with this stuff anymore.

Autoblog clouds every teens dream of having a car and cell phone by writing:

Using a driving simulator, Ford compared the response of adult and teenage drivers to traffic events happening in front of them. As the chart shows, both types of drivers missed about 3 percent of potentially dangerous events without the distraction of a phone, but when placing a phone call the rate jumps to 13.6 percent for adults and almost 54 percent for teens. And this is using a hands-free headset!

Read and weep further in Autoblog’s Teen drivers and cell phones don’t mix post.

[tags]cell,teen,driving,distraction[/tags]