The Influence of Drinking, Texting and Eating on Simulated Driving Performance.

Conclusions: Distracting behaviours such as eating and texting whilst driving appear to negatively impact driving measures of lane position control and reaction time. These findings may have direct implications for motorists that engage in these types of distracting behaviours behind the wheel and for the safety of other road users. PMID: 24828121 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research