‘We’ve spent billions on air bags, antilock brakes, better steering, safer cars and roads, but the number of fatalities has remained constant,’ said David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah and a leading researcher in the field of distracted driving. ‘Our return on investment for those billions is zero,’ he added. ‘And that’s because we’re using devices in our cars.’
— Excerpt from a New York Times article about distracted driving, which concludes that talking or texting while driving is about as dangerous as driving drunk.