Multi-tasking
...Uh correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't we just recently bragging about being the "multi-tasking generation?" We can get more done in a morning than the entirety of the EU can all week - sort of thing... Now, we can't even talk on the phone while in the car?!? Or eat - the great California pass time?!? Or drink a Starbucks?!? Un-American! Next:" Felony gum-chewing while afoot -- film at 11, be sure to sit down or you'll suffocate."And only this weekend, newspaper ads warned phone users to avoid walking and writing emails at the same time.
Oh; and stop talking 1) on your cell phone and 2) to vehicle passengers because it is the same level of distraction ! And no thinking, no doing arithmetic, no planning lunch/dinner/parties, no mental arguments with your spouse/sister/boss/mom, no figuring out your mileage/schedule/dance routines, no thinking about a summer's morn in a dewey field awash in feminime hygene products -- NO THINKING ! You'll get distracted, you buffoons! Ahhh, life on the Fluffy Coast where *they* think you're just as smart as *they* are... ThanQ! Wm Gibson Update:
analysis by the USA insurance company... there may be a "distracted-driver personality" type behind the wheel. The Response Insurance National Driving Distractions Survey ...When compared to drivers who do not talk on cell phones, drivers who use cell phones are 56% more likely to be distracted behind the wheel while thinking about what to eat; 36% more likely to be distracted thinking about relationship issues; 32% more likely to be distracted when thinking about their jobs; 27% more likely to be distracted when thinking about health concerns; 21% more likely to be distracted when thinking about family issues, and 19% more likely to be distracted when thinking about money issues or bills.
If, as the survey indicates, certain people are more likely to be distracted behind the wheel, recent attention to cell phone use may be missing the larger problem of driver inattention.
ThanQ! Gizmodo
I don’t think that talking to in-car passengers represents the same level of distraction that talking to someone on a cell phone does. I haven’t seen any studies of this, but I bet talking on a cell phone acts very strongly to take your focus of attention out of the here-and-now.
Posted by David Foster on 07/07/03 at 09:18 AM
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