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Citation

Fisher DL. Hum. Factors 2015; 57(8): 1331-1333.

Affiliation

University of Massachusetts Amherst fisher@ecs.umass.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0018720815576435

PMID

26534850

Abstract

Strayer et al. in this volume show that increases in cognitive workload caused by drivers' involvement in distracting activities that allow them to keep their eyes on the road lead to decrements in indices of safe driving performance. Although there is agreement that in-vehicle tasks that require drivers to take their eyes off the road increase crash risk, there is mounting controversy about whether in-vehicle tasks that do not require drivers to take their eyes off the forward roadway increase crash risk-thus the conundrum: How can there be an abundance of cognitively distracting activities and controversy about whether such activities increase crash risk?


Language: en

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