San Antonio: Using voice to send text messages while driving is just as dangerous as texting with fingers, with driver response times significantly delayed no matter which method was used, a study released on Tuesday showed.
The study by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University was the first to compare voice-to-text and traditional texting on a handheld device in an actual driving environment.
"In each case, drivers took about twice as long to react as they did when they weren't texting," Christine Yager, who headed the study, told Reuters. "Eye contact to the roadway also decreased, no matter which texting method was used."
The research involved 43 participants driving along a test track without any electronic devices present. The same participants then drove while texting and again while using a speech-to-text device....
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11:27 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Toronto: Teens who are hooked on to texting are more likely to be shallow, placing more importance on wealth and image than moral, aesthetic and spiritual goals, a new study has claimed. Researchers from the University of Winnipeg in Canada found that teens who texted more than 100 times a day were 30 per cent less likely to feel strongly that leading an ethical, principled life was important to them,...
04:14 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Washington: Scientists have reported that rampant use of social networking, texting and chatting on mobile phone can result in lower grades and poor performance of students, says a study. The widespread use of media among college students - from texting, chatting on mobile phones to posting status updates on Facebook - may be affecting their academic performance, say researchers at the Miriam Hospital's Centres for Behavioural and Preventive Medicine in...
11:44 AM, Apr 13, 2013
A new system which prevents people from texting while driving by disabling the car has been developed in the US. ...
04:15 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Parents might be puzzled by the modern day text lingo, however, using abbreviations like 'lol', 'gr8' and 'b4' can improve your child's writing skills, a new study has found. ...
01:34 PM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: Google has extended its free SMS chat service to Indian users. The Gmail SMS feature is now accessible to Indian users along with 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America. Google had first made this feature available to its users in some African countries in 2011. Using the free Gmail SMS service users can send text messages to mobile phones via Gmail Chat. Responses to the...
06:57 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New York: A 17-year-old boy who says he has "abnormally fast thumbs" has been named the fastest texter in America for the second year in a row. "It feels incredible," said Austin Wierschke of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, after winning the sixth annual US LG National Texting Competition in Times Square on Wednesday. He gets $50,000 in prize money, which he says he'll save and use to pay for college, along with...
12:56 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Washington: Text messaging offer tweens a short cut to send notes to friends and family, but it could also subvert language and grammar skills, point out researchers. When tweens write in techspeak, they often use shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions of non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message. "They may use a homophone, such as gr8 for great, or an initial, like, LOL for laugh...
12:31 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Washington: Texting and talking on cell phones behind the wheel kills more than 5,000 people every year on US highways. Teen drivers seem to be especially susceptible to distraction, a study says. A 2009 study focusing on drivers of larger vehicles and trucks has concluded that texting raised the risk of a crash by 23 times compared with non-distracted driving, says an environmental report. Environmental researcher Uvid Hosansky, who authored...
10:33 AM, May 21, 2012
Washington: US safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars. The National Transportation Safety Board recommendation covers portable devices only but still goes beyond measures proposed or imposed to date by regulators and states, most of which already ban texting while behind the wheel. "When...
10:45 AM, Dec 14, 2011
London: Day-to-day stress has triggered an unusual habit of sleep texting - where people text messages even while sleeping, according to researchers. People with this peculiar condition send incoherent messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware of doing it, said researcher Frank Thorne, the Daily Mail reported. "Patients reported incidents of sleep texting - were advised to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom, it is...
01:49 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Los Angeles: It seems like such a quaint notion: Folks would go to the movie theater, buy their tickets at the box office, then sit down, shut up and pay attention for two hours to what was on the screen. Now, the piercing glow of cell phones lights up the darkness like so many pesky fireflies, and people talk to each other in a packed auditorium as if they were...
01:20 PM, Jun 21, 2011
London: We've all done that - hurriedly typing out a text message that doesn't quite turn out as we'd hoped. But for those who use the built-in dictionary on their mobile phones, embarrassing miscommunication can jump to a whole new level. Take the mother who wanted to treat her children by making them visit Santa Claus one Christmas. She didn't sound so loving when she texted a friend: "Taking the...
05:39 PM, Jan 09, 2011
New York: Let's face it: Teenagers spend hours texting, socializing on Facebook and playing video games. And it's driving their parents nuts. Sure, there are real dangers associated with all this screen time - everything from cyberbullying to couch-potato obesity. Not to mention driving while texting, shortened attention spans and Internet porn. But many of today's parents spent hours as kids sitting in front of screens too - only they...
12:35 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Grade school teachers are making sure their youngest students don't forget how to write by hand. ...
06:34 PM, Apr 26, 2010
CNN's Jeanne Moos checks out the launch of "Tigertext." ...
03:42 PM, Mar 02, 2010
It is illegal in California to use hand-held mobiles while driving. ...
10:10 AM, Oct 23, 2009
Making calls while in company of others are breeches of manners. ...
08:16 AM, Oct 20, 2009
Police and prosecutors are pressing serious charges against them. ...
02:04 AM, Feb 19, 2009
