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I totally agree with the other comments here about safety. Driving is one of the most dangerous things the average person will do every day, and deserves your f

I totally agree with the other comments here about safety. Driving is one of the most dangerous things the average person will do every day, and deserves your full attention. It's fine to make choices for yourself and to accept some risk in your life, but when you are behind the wheel you are making that choice to increase the risk for everyone around you too. You have a responsibility to drive carefully. Please don't make the roads any more unsafe by doing activities or encouraging others to do activities while driving that may distract them from the task of driving safely. Find other ways to reclaim your commute such as moving closer to work, working from home on some days or using public transport. Or perhaps stop thinking of your commute as lost time, but time that is spent to enable you to live somewhere pleasant/quiet/cheap while working somewhere that meets the needs of your business/work.

Periodic 15y ago
As a society, at least in the US, we seem to have decided that audio-only activities are acceptable while driving. I suppose this is because driving mostly engages visual and motor skills, leaving our audio and language processing free to talk or listen. Listening to audio books or presentations I believe is good. Dictation is probably a fine activity. As soon as your hands start getting involved or you start to look away from the road I believe that safety starts to suffer. Does anyone have any quantitative data on how common driving activities affect safety?
- underwater 15y ago
  Unless he's recording random streams of thoight then there is going to be a lot of conscious decision making and problem solving involved in authoring a post. Those tasks seem overlap with what he should be doing while driving.
  - codemac 15y ago
    I'd imagine that he probably IS recording random streams of thought, and then editing them when he gets the dictation back. Even when I'm talking to friends in the car, I can barely keep a thread of conversation very sensible.
- loeg 15y ago
  Lots of sources on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safety#Handsfree_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safe...
AznHisoka 15y ago
I totally agree as well. What ever happened to being present and paying attention to the task at hand? I don't believe in making the most of my commute time. I believe in doing whatever is necessary to make the commute time as low as possible.
mahyarm 15y ago
So I'm guessing you don't have conversations with passengers then and stay completely silent in the car.

Periodic 15y ago

As a society, at least in the US, we seem to have decided that audio-only activities are acceptable while driving. I suppose this is because driving mostly engages visual and motor skills, leaving our audio and language processing free to talk or listen. Listening to audio books or presentations I believe is good. Dictation is probably a fine activity. As soon as your hands start getting involved or you start to look away from the road I believe that safety starts to suffer. Does anyone have any quantitative data on how common driving activities affect safety?

underwater 15y ago
Unless he's recording random streams of thoight then there is going to be a lot of conscious decision making and problem solving involved in authoring a post. Those tasks seem overlap with what he should be doing while driving.
- codemac 15y ago
  I'd imagine that he probably IS recording random streams of thought, and then editing them when he gets the dictation back. Even when I'm talking to friends in the car, I can barely keep a thread of conversation very sensible.
loeg 15y ago
Lots of sources on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safety#Handsfree_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safe...

AznHisoka 15y ago

I totally agree as well. What ever happened to being present and paying attention to the task at hand? I don't believe in making the most of my commute time. I believe in doing whatever is necessary to make the commute time as low as possible.

mahyarm 15y ago

So I'm guessing you don't have conversations with passengers then and stay completely silent in the car.