Download or read book Cell Phones Cause Functional Blindness While Driving – Worldwide Prevalence, Proof of Mechanism, and Global Restrictions written by Patrick Reddy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbal cell phone use causes distracted drivers because of transient visual impairment called "inattentional blindness". Crash statistics, simulated driving, and functional brain imaging show the brain processes cell phone language at higher priority than visual driving cues.