Studies show hands-free mobile phone usage while driving is still dangerous!

According to research published in a recent human factors journal, hands-free devices do not necessarily reduce accidents, fatalities and damage when using a mobile phone while driving. Speech recognition is singled as one of eight distractions. One of the studies show that drivers tend to slow down when entering information either manually or via speech recognition.

I suppose somebody unaccustomed to using speech-enabled apps or a poorly performing speech app could be distracting, but would a finely tuned, completely hands-free speech interface be any more distracting to a driver than the car radio or a talkative passenger?

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