In a message dated 8/9/01 12:00:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> COnsider that the latest research into brain multitaksing and productivity
> has scary implications for the mobile (which in the USA essentially means
> "car") phone industry - I think Carnegie Mellon is planning another study
> using driving simulators and handsfree mobile phones,
For what it is worth - just got back from having a few beers with one of my
neuroscience collaborators who says the study was incredibly flawed
methodologically (the relationship between the event and the measurement of
activation as measured on MR was much too long).
What if it turns out the human brain can't process such difficult tasks as
driving and talking on the phone simultaneously, without it being dangerous?
The cellphone
> trade groups will rush to fund their own study that draws the opposite
> conclusion, obviously. If no one could make a call from a car that would
> be a lot less calls. The "scientific" argument will go on for years and
> years while certain people make money. (In *my* opinion talking on phones
> in the car is dumb, handsfree kits are a pain and if you must talk on the
> phone I think it's best to find the nearest parking lot. But that's just
> me, I guess. Perhaps a few people are freakishly good multi-taskers and
> just happen to need to use phones heavily in moving cars.)
Problem is I multi-task on the car all the time anyway. When I am with my
wife or kids I talk to them (or yell at them whichverer the case may be).
When I am alone I fiddle with the radio or pull out a CD etc. I know it isn't
good but I don't see cell phones (at least hands free versions) as any
different. With cheap voice recognition around the corner I don't think this
will be an issue.
