[ale] dialing on Android and driving will kill you and others.

[Lightner, Jeff]

Interestingly there was a TV show on last week that talked about
multi-tasking and said that humans don't - people that think they do are
actually task-shifting at a high rate.   It went on to say that there is
some research that such high speed task shifting is bad for you and
might actually make you dumber in the long run.

 

The funny thing about laws against texting, reading email, dialing
etc... when you are driving.   There was a study that said such laws
actually seem to INCREASE auto accidents because people continue to do
the activity but try to hide it so become even more distracted and lose
more road concentration time because they're eyes are traveling further
to the "hidden" phone.

 

I love the hands free built into my car which has voice prompting built
in.   If legislators really want to help they should make such devices a
factory requirement in recognition of the above.   (Of course that
wouldn't help because many people wouldn't be able to figure out how to
pair Bluetooth devices if their lives depended on it.)

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 9:45 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] dialing on Android and driving will kill you and
others.

 

And your observations are the base for my fervent desire to have either
steering wheels removed and cars run on a track or driver isolated from
non-drivers both visually and auditorily (and probably olfactorily as
well).

Humans don't multi-task. At best they task-swap. And all of us know
there is a cost to each swap on a computer and thus can imagine there's
also a cost for a human. Add to it that 1/2 the population is below
average intelligence (thus increasing the "I can do this just fine"
factor) which adds to the "they're trying to kill me" factor of everyone
n the road.

automatic Jetson's bubble car. I really wish we were pouring as much
research into making cheap, ultralight, automatic transport devices to
replace what we have as are into ways to keep the mess we have going.



On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:21 AM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6090342-7.html
>
> I think about this every time I bike on Atlanta streets.
>
> -- CHS
>

I'd really like a study to quantify the level of distraction of an
in-car conversation vs. a cell phone conversation.  For the moment,
let's exclude the obviously dangerous dialing period, and focus on the
discussion.  Why is a discussion over a cell phone any worse than
talking to the passenger next to you?  I've seen plenty of people who
insist on turning their head to talk to their passenger in the car.
(Yes, eye contact during a conversation is good, but not when it
sacrifices eye contact with the road/other drivers.)


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