The following appeared on Slashdot yesterday, July 20:
" By now you've probably seen the NY Times's long piece on distracted " driving:
" about how most drivers and most legislators willfully ignore the " evidence of the dangers of talking on a cellphone, texting, and " other electronic distractions while behind the wheel. According " to this article, cellphone use while driving causes over 1,000 " fatalities a year in the US. Another shoe has now dropped: it " seems that the US National Highway Safety Administration blocked " a proposed definitive study of the risks:
" The NHSA now cites concerns about angering Congress. Two consumer " safety groups had filed a FOIA request for documents about the " aborted study, and the Times has now made the documents public:
" including the research behind the request for a study of " 10,000 drivers.
The PDF copy of the document is here (266 pages, 7.9MB):
Sorry for the long URLs, but I don't like tinyurl and similar due to their masking the original URL and not knowing whether one is being directed to an IFRAME-infected site or not.