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Dont Breathe and Drive? Pollutants Lurk inside Vehicles Bob Weinhold Abstract Photo credit: FPG At times it pays to live in the fast lane. Drivers motoring in freeway carpool lanes not only avoid the congestion of traffic in slower neighboring lanes, they may also avoid lung congestion from pollutants that seep into their vehicles as they creep along in bumper-to-bumper traffic. In-vehicle pollutants have been investigated in about two dozen studies over the past two decades, with consistent findings around the world: driving in tightly packed traffic leads to interior concentrations of pollutants that are up to 10 times higher than those in ambient city air. The full version of this article is available for free in HTML or PDF formats. |
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