Posted by mkirsch on June 08, 2012 at 13:39:24 from (64.80.110.75):
In Reply to: Distracted driving! posted by oldtanker on June 08, 2012 at 07:29:18:
You don't see reports of people wandering all over the road, and/or causing accidents by tuning the radio, talking to passengers, or talking on the CB EVERY DAY...
There's something different about the cell phone, whether it's physical or psychological, and it affects EVERYONE. For some reason people can split their attention to change the radio station, or carry on a conversation with the passengers in their car. For some reason dealing with the cell phone requires every last drop of concentration most people can muster.
For those of you who cry why outlaw cell phones and not the radio, there IS a difference in the way our brains treat the two devices.
Maybe this is inadvertent proof of Darwin's theory of evolution? The ability to split your attention enough to tune the radio is genetic, and the people that couldn't handle it offed themselves in car wrecks in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. The ones left to breed created children with the same ability to deal with driving and tuning a radio...
The problem is nowadays we make laws to protect stupid/uncoordinated people instead of letting evolution by survival of the fittest take care of them naturally.
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