Stu wrote on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:49:28 -0500:

>> On Jun 21, 2:36 pm, "James Silverton"
>> > wrote:
>>> Serene wrote on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:26:15 -0700:
>>>
>> >> elaich wrote:
>> >>> George > wrote in
>> >>> -
>> >>> september.org:
>>>
>> >>>> Should we also have laws that we can't change the
>> >>>> station on the radio or talk to a vehicle occupant too?
>>>
>> >>> That is a completely different thing. The brain is
>> >>> capable of multitasking in it's normal environment. We
>> >>> are surrounded by sounds that do not distract us from
>> >>> what we are doing. Most people are able to drive while
>> >>> talking to a passenger, changing the radio, etc.
>> >> Not true, and it's also not true that the hands-free
>> >> option is safer.
>>>
>>> What do think of the totally hands-free Bluetooth phones?
>>> They can be programmed to autodial simply by speaking a
>>> name.
>>
>> Most of the studies say that they are just as dangerous. It
>> is not having something in your hand: It appears to be the
>> cognitive loading that comes from talking on the phone where
>> you have many fewer queues about what the other speaker is
>> trying to say.

I'd repeat that when you are driving you don't look at the passenger
when you are talking, so what's the difference?

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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