XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
From: nospam@nospam.invalid
In article <566910d5$0$92821$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Patty Winter
wrote:
> >> None of the other examples you gave require anywhere near the level
> >> of cognitive attention that a phone conversation does.
> >
> >nonsense.
> >
> >people can (and do) have cellphone conversations while seeing where
> >they are going.
>
> I didn't say anything about a cellphone user's eyes moving. I said
> "cognitive attention." I.e., you have to think more to carry on a
> conversation than to eat or change the radio station.
bad comparison because changing a radio station takes almost no time t
all. a proper comparison would be if someone asked you a yes/no
question and you answered and that was the end of the conversation.
> >> These days, fiddling with the radio doesn't require taking ones eyes
> >> off the road.
> >
> >yes it does, unless you somehow magically know where the specific
> >button you want to press happens to be, or the cd you want to insert
> >happens to be.
>
> I know exactly where the up/down volume and up/down channel buttons
> are on my steering wheel; I don't have to look at them.
not all cars have buttons on the steering wheel and of those that do,
not everything can be controlled from there.
> >> Neither does eating.
> >
> >you must be kidding.
>
> No. Do you look at your food while you're eating it? I don't.
bullshit you don't.
wear a blindfold for your next meal and see how well that works out.
> >> Putting on makeup is dumb because
> >> it does require looking in the mirror.
> >
> >yet nobody makes a fuss about that. only cellphones.
>
> I just made a fuss about it, and I'm hardly the first person to do so.
*very* few do.
when's the last time you heard about banning makeup application or
eating food while driving? now compare that to banning cellphone use.
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