The evolution of texting and driving...

[HoosierDaddy]

People who text and driver or use their motherf*@king device for whatever reason while moving down the road are complete idiots that have no business behind the wheel. Their driver's license should revoked for a year for every time they are caught doing it.

We need to be careful about the definition of texting. Texting can be done 100% hands free using just ears to hear them and voice to dictate them while their phone is in their brief case. That is LESS dangerous and distracting than talking to a passenger or taking a hands free call. Texting is not a problem; touching or looking at a phone for anything is a problem. Now if you also believe someone should lose their license for a year for talking to a passenger, please disregard.

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[Coyote Red]

My 2 cent's, in the over-populated world we live in today, there are 10 times the people on the road than 20 years ago. This makes DWI,DUI& Text an drive a lot more dangerous.
Humanoids matter, and when there are 10 times more people on the roads, you should just "Drive the car Alan".

 

[GT Pony]

We need to be careful about the definition of texting. Texting can be done 100% hands free using just ears to hear them and voice to dictate them while their phone is in their brief case. That is LESS dangerous and distracting than talking to a passenger or taking a hands free call. Texting is not a problem; touching or looking at a phone for anything is a problem. Now if you also believe someone should lose their license for a year for talking to a passenger, please disregard.

I'm talking about people who are continually looking down at their device and not paying attention to the road ... not talking about hands free, or talking to their passenger. Unless they are continually looking sideways at their passenger while talking and not keeping their eyes on the road ... I've seen some people do that.

What was the first thing they taught people in drivers education ... "keep your eyes on the road".

 

[doulos4jc]

Human beings have an amazing ability to multi task, some better than others. People say: I can do this or that and it doesn't distract me.(they would be wrong). A person can only do a limited amount of things at once. It only takes the wrong distraction at the wrong time before you drift 4 feet to the left into oncoming traffic. People also have an amazing ability to think: that would never happen to me....and: I'm gonna live forever. (they are also wrong). I think we can all agree that taking your eyes off the road for more than a heartbeat is where we should draw the line.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Human ability to multi-task is a myth.

What you do is akin to the way Windows operates, throwing little time slices at each item or task in rotation. Trouble is, it takes time to adequately disengage from any one task and pick up the next one and get up to speed there. Basically, you're wasting time . . . or sacrificing accuracy to maintain as much overall speed as you can.


Not only would I not attempt to "multi-task" even when I was working (I'm retired), there were a few times when I'd inform an interrupter that it'd be several minutes at minimum before I could become as up to speed in what he was bringing as he already was. More than once I got close to suggesting to my supervisor that every time he wanted me to drop the engineering problem I was already working on and pick up something new that just swapping tasks was going to cost a full man-hour of reduced/lost productivity. A high estimate, sure. But it'd have taken that much exaggeration to get the point across.


Norm

 

[Firepath]

Human ability to multi-task is a myth.

What you do is akin to the way Windows operates, throwing little time slices at each item or task in rotation. Trouble is, it takes time to adequately disengage from any one task and pick up the next one and get up to speed there. Basically, you're wasting time . . . or sacrificing accuracy to maintain as much overall speed as you can.


Not only would I not attempt to "multi-task" even when I was working (I'm retired), there were a few times when I'd inform an interrupter that it'd be several minutes at minimum before I could become as up to speed in what he was bringing as he already was. More than once I got close to suggesting to my supervisor that every time he wanted me to drop the engineering problem I was already working on and pick up something new that just swapping tasks was going to cost a full man-hour of reduced/lost productivity. A high estimate, sure. But it'd have taken that much exaggeration to get the point across.


Norm

I have very similar frustrations at my job (software developer) with swapping between jobs midway constantly. So much wasted overhead switching mindsets between completely different problems. If I'm halfway through something (that may take between 1/2hr to 8hrs) and need to swap, it is almost like I may as well not have done anything on it.

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