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Here’s a big suprise, according to a new study Cell phone users actually tie up traffic. Wow, they had to comission a study to tell us something we already knew? How many times have you seen a person, driving even with a blue tooth headset seemingly talking as if s/he were conducting some important multi-million dollar business interview while on the road? How many of you have also seen these people driving either too fast, or too recklessly?

Yet this article goes one step further, instead of simply stating the facts it attempts a bit of potty humor. According to Peter Martin of the University of Utas’s Traffic Lab, "It’s a bit like break wind in the elevator. Everyone suffers." So let me get this straight, someone driving while talking on a cell phone is a bit like breaking wind in an elevator? Really?

Here’s something else that we’ve all seen at one point or another while someone is talking on a cell phone:

"What they found is that when the drivers were distracted by a phone conversation, they made fewer lane changes, drove slower and took longer to get where they are going".

Yep that about sums up my experience with these types of drivers. I really have to wonder, if the phone conversation that you are conducting is so important, why not simply pull over to the side of the road and have your conversation there. It obviously can’t be that important if you can drive and talk at the same time.

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