Tag: hang up and drive
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Don’t Drive Distracted
Driver inattention is the leading factor in most crashes and near-crashes […]. Nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before the event. Primary causes of driver inattention are distracting activities, such as cell phone use, and drowsiness. (.) Source Would you like to…
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Jammin’
Driving home from the airport last night, I got stuck behind a car being driven erratically. Its speed would range from 54 up to 66 mph, seemingly slower when by cars in the adjacent lane and when passing was impossible, and faster otherwise. It was also slowly drifting side to side. I thought the driver…
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Shut Up and Let Me Drive
A new study shows that brains aren’t good at multitasking — If you’re listening, you can’t watch as well. Or, in scientist-speak: When attention is deployed to one modality — say, in this case, talking on a cell phone — it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality — in this case, the visual task…