London incidents

Tue Jul 12 21:17:39 UTC 2005

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	The problem with mobile phones in the car has less to do with 
> taking a person's hand off the wheel (although that is something to 
> be concerned about), and more to do with the fact that the driver is 
> distracted by talking to the person on the other end.

They say this, but it doesn't work that way for me, as a datapoint.

It's not the conversation that's the big thing, IME; it's *holding a
phone up to your ear*, which is an action we train ourselves to follow
up with *ignoring what's going on around us*.

When I talk while driving *without* a headset, my driving's usually
fine... it's my *navigation* that fails totally.  Using a headset, both
are fine.  YMMV. 

Shutting down the networks just because they can be used to trigger a
bomb is asinine, though, yes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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