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Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Insurance company Esurance has a new study out on distracted driving, and it makes for interesting reading. Almost everyone agrees distracted driving is bad, yet it's still remarkably prevalent. Even drivers who report rarely driving distracted also report that they engage in distracting behaviors. The study also raises some questions about the growing complexity of modern vehicles, particularly the user interfaces they confront us with. The Esurance report includes survey data from more than a thousand participants. More than 90 percent said that browsing for apps, texting, and emailing were distracting. Yet more than half of daily commuters admitted to doing it. The survey also found that the longer your commute, the greater the chance is you'll get distracted, probably by your phone. Even participants who reported they were "rarely distracted" admitted to distracting behavior like talking on the phone or even viewing GPS Navigation data. (Any task performed while driving should be able to be performed in under two seconds to avoid becoming a distraction.)
Instead, I do distracted train riding. I’m so reckless, I’ve been known to read books while the train flies along. If I’m feeling especially daring, I’ll close my eyes - sometimes for minutes at a time.
So be careful if you see my train coming!
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Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
against the law to use a handheld device while stopped at a traffic light
Because nature will conspire against you to change the light to green as soon as you start fiddling with some device. And everyone behind you starts blowing their horn. But if you are in a hurry, the lights all stay red.
So I outsmart nature. When I'm in a hurry, I pick up my cell phone. Or something else that I could kill time with at a red light. So nature says, "Aha! I'm going to make this guy look like an idiot." And it turns all the light green for me.
Have gnu, will travel.
Don't drive distracted! It is illegal! There is no multi-tasking and driving!
No kidding, I can't believe a woman beside me this morning was trying to put on makeup while driving. It's a good thing I looked up from my book when I did, otherwise she would have hit me when she came over into my lane.