Texting decreases your reaction rates more than Alcohol

I agree with the points made in this article. The Transport Research Laboratory did a study on drivers and their reaction times when texting and found interesting results. "Their reaction times deteriorated by 35 per cent, much worse than those who drank alcohol at the legal limit, who were 12 per cent slower." I find this information easy to believe because when you drink alcohol and then drive, you are not as focused as you were if you were sober. When you text while you drive you are taking your focus away from the road and depending for how long you text, it could be worse to text and drive then to drink. "During the study, the Transport Research Laboratory concluded that text messages took on average 63 seconds to compose while the phone owner was driving, compared with 22 seconds when sent from a desk." I like this informaion found in the study because it should show people that they should not waste a minute and three seconds to send a message while driving, when they can send the message from their desk in less than half the time. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/news/article4776063.ece