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

[Jim Kinney]

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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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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