If you’re reading this page on your phone while driving, you may want to look up for a second because a playground just merged into your lane.
According to a study at the University of Utah, only 2.5 percent of people can sufficiently do two things at once, like curl their hair and burp a baby.
If you’re not one of these 2.5 percent and attempt to drive and talk on the phone, then you’re an idiot. If you are one of these 2.5 percent, then you’re a “supertasker,” which makes you sound like an idiot.
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New England drivers can breathe a sigh of relief. Rhode Island is finally getting its drivers off the road.
wants to see a national test to get a Multitasking License implemented.
So, I’m curious as to how talking on the phone differs from talking to a passenger… Maybe it’s the ‘one hand on the wheel/one hand on the phone’ dilemma…?
Should we put a ban on talking to your passengers now? What about those crazy mothers who are looking in the rear view mirror at their offspring all the time? Can we ban that?
I’d say that the big difference between talking to a passenger and talking on the phone is that you have to concentrate more on the phone to discern meaning.
Phones already filter and distort the human voice, which can dilute subtle verbal messages, plus there’s the complete absence of any visual cues.
In a sense, you are in two worlds at once, but excelling at neither. At least a passenger is part of your car world and generally knows when to shut up or warn you before collision.