Abstract:  When people focus on some events, tend to ignore appeared in front of other things, psychologists call this phenomenon as “inattention blindness”. For example, most people who drive have experienced these brief moments of not seeing, that is, of “functional blindness” or “sighted blindness”. Driving with using a mobile phone may cause inattention blindness and impairment of driving performance, can increase the risk of traffic accidents to 1-9 times, most of the reports to 3-4 times. Most researches prove that using hands-free cell phone while driving is not safer than using handheld mobile phone. The use of mobile phones is not only the reason for the occurrence inattention blindness. Other reasons can also cause inattention blindness such as eating, chatting with others, adjusting the radio while driving. They should be fully avoided. (Ophthalmol CHN，2015, 24: 8-11)

Key words: inattention blindness, mobile phone, traffic accidents