Keep your mind on the road

This articles states the most distracting activities you can do while you are driving. Dr. Strayer divided 120 volunteers into 3 groups and and asked 

each group to perform all of the eight tasks which were doing nothing; listening to the radio; listening to an audio book; conversing with a passenger; calling a friend using a hand-held phone; calling a friend using a hands-free phone; using speech to send a text message; and, to verify a set of mathematical equations while memorizing nouns interjected between the maths problems.

The first group of volunteers performed these tasks sitting at a computer, the second sat in simulators resembling the interior of a car, and followed another car on a screen and the third drove real cars. their level of concentration was tested by studying their responses to lights shone in the their all around visual 

field, and their subjective views of which tasks demanded most attention were recorded. The overall results showed that listening to radio or book was the 

least distracting activities and the most being hands-free texting. 

This articles first caught my eye because I just got my permit so I was curious to find out what activity was the most distracting while driving and caused the most accidents, so I could not prevent accidents from being distracted. Also I thought it was interesting because I never thought that hands-free texting was the most distracting activity especially since it is hands free.