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Study to examine gadget distractions


General Motors, in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, will spend $1.6 million over three years to study the extent to which drivers are distracted by electronic equipment. According to the article on GlobalAutoNet , GM will work with the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology between now and 2004, using the institute's driving simulator to measure driver distraction during use of cell phones, electronic navigation systems, and other electronic equipment. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has expressed concern about the growing number of electronic gadgets used during driving, although the agency admits there is no "good hard data" about possible danger. General Motors's manager of vehicle information technologies, Jim Rillings, said the information GM learns will help the automaker "modify some of the products in our vehicles."End of Article

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