[extropy-chat] no electronics at Singularity Summit???

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:04:06PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> I wear a bluetooth headset so I am handsfree.  If something needs  
> more of my attention I tell the caller to hang on.  No big deal.  For  
> most of us around 95% of the time we are driving the actual driving  
> has very little of our attention as most of the non-emergency stuff  
> is largely semi-automated behavior.  So I see no reason that in these  
> rather boring lag times we should forego conversation with physical  
> or virtually present people.

The question is how quickly a situation can go from routine to
emergency.  The studies I mentioned didn't find interference with lane
following, but with reaction time.

-xx- Damien X-)