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

[Samantha Atkins]

Subjectively speaking I get much more distracted by my thoughts when  
driving than by conversations.  :-)

- samantha

On May 23, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Damien Sullivan wrote:

> 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-)
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