Operating a vehicle while multitasking may, in fact, be hazardous -- this is news?


	Operating a vehicle while multitasking may, in fact, be hazardous -- this is news?

patchworkthreads

9-23-2008 12:39 PM

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common sense, text, cell phone

patchworkthreads says:

From the blog entry comments: "Raymond's post title nailed the essence. Doesn't matter whether you're reading, eating, putting makeup on, texting, or what. Laws banning texting while driving miss the point, in that regard."

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11-19-2008 5:25 PM

balthazarus

but somehow whenever i come to my car, i remeber so many things that i want to do, so i find myself craving for an hour of octapus like...

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The <I>New York Times</I> points out that
if you engage in an activity that requires your attention,
then it reduces your ability to do other things at the same
time which also require your attention.
For some reason, however this is news when
<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/20messaging.html">
one of those things is sending text messages</A>.
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I wonder if,
had contemporary news editors existed back in the days when books
were invented,
they would have published big scary articles expounding on the
dangers of reading a book while riding a horse or chopping
firewood.
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