October 1, 2010 | 9:22 AM |

Test Your Skill: How Distracted Are You When Texting?

FILED UNDER: Personal Health, distraction, driving, texting

A while back, The New York Times published a nifty little interactive game to determine how hopelessly distracted we can be when we’re texting while driving. (I failed miserably, with a much slower reaction and double the number of missed gates while I was texting.)

So, in commemoration of Massachusetts’ new statewide ban on text-driving — a law that police say they will enforce vigorously — here’s the online game for you to check out. Hopefully it will help you take the texting ban to heart.

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Blogger, CommonHealth Rachel Zimmerman worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, most recently covering health and medicine out of the paper’s Boston bureau. Rachel has also written for The New York Times, the (now-defunct) Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the alternative newspaper Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., among other publications. Rachel co-wrote a book about birth, published by Bantam/Random House, and spent 2008 as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rachel lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters. View all posts by Rachel Zimmerman →