Shannon Roberts, 2024 PEP Fellow, writes that even using a phone hands-free can cause dangerous distracted driving

“Talking on a hands-free phone and driving is multitasking, and humans are not good at doing two cognitively demanding tasks at the same time,” Roberts writes. Read more here

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