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how ironic...this past weekend a woman was talking on her cell phone, the next town over. while talking, she lost control, and you guessed it, crashed into a cingular wireless store. when i heard this story on the radio, i laughed, unfortunately with my wife beside me. can you imagine she called me a sick bast***? i still laugh when i think about it.
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I heard about that and I laughed, too. I hope she's OK, though. It would suck if the keypad got permanently imprinted on her cheek....
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let's just say, she won't be coming down for breakfast!
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maybe she picked up one of those headsets while she was in the store
just a thought
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I'm laughing poetic justice.
I don't even think hands free is the answer, people just can't drive well while concentrating on a conversation.
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Hi,
They did a study, I think at University of Toronto, and even using hands-free, talking on the phone has the effect of inducing tunnel vision. It narrows your perception on the periphery as if you were wearing blinders (blinkers?). What are those things called they put on the horses that haul overweight tourists around New York in carriages?
I think this finding is true about hands-free cell phone use and driving.
Alan Lofft, Axiom Resident Expert (Retired)
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Well, after all, we only have a finite number of neurons in our cortex that share the burdens of perceptive/cognitive processing...
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Alan, you gotter' with Blinders...helps keep the horses from getting spooked/distracted with things going on around them.
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My wife called me on her way home from a doctor appointment yesterday to tell me the baby was "making his way downward" (to put it un-medically) and could be out as soon as next week! I got pretty excited, then I said:
"Wait, are you calling me from a cell phone while you're driving?! You know you shouldn't do that (self-censored '...in your condition.')"
So she replied:
"Relax, I just parked. And besides, I wanted to catch you before you headed to the gym."
Sheesh.
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