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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 eng
by Periodic 14y 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 14y agoUnless 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 14y agoI'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 14y agoLots 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...