What are things you do when you're multitasking while driving?

Answer 1

Have an accident, loose you life, kill someone else, and many other very bad things can happen. Driving a car today takes your undivided attention. A car is no place to multitask. Anyone who does this has no business on the road, and is a fool. Amen. The human brain isn't good at multitasking in the "common" sense of the word. And this regardless of any claims made to the contrary. Neurologists are confirming (not finding - they've already found out) that the manner after which the brain functions makes it a "one-thing-at-a-time" kind of machine. What the brain is good at is switching from one task to another. This promotes the illusion that some people are good at multitasking. But, in truth, they really aren't doing "two things at once" as some might think. Texting or doing anything else while driving pulls the attention of the driver from the task of operating the vehicle. It makes driving while texting or some other egregiously foolish thing like that border on criminal. This is being written a week or so after the crash of a commuter passenger train in Southern California where 25 people were killed and over a hundred injured. The train's engineer effectively ran red lights telling him to stop and drove his string of cars into a freight train. He died in the "accident" with some of his passengers, but was texting "a lot" during his run - and up to about 22 seconds before the crash. Better for him (probably) that he was killed in that crash. (Nothing personal here. How would you feel if a family member or loved one was among the fatalities? And would an expensive trial and a long prison term bring anyone back?) This was a train wreck. Something that takes several seconds to develop and to happen. A car wreck happens in the blink of an eye. A link to the news story is below. Use your head on this one. Don't think for a second that you are the "exception to the rule" as regards neuralogical functioning. And don't let anyone else do that, either.