Distracted Is the New Drunk
December 7, 2016 — “Note to Self,” WNYC: “Instead of saying, ‘don’t be a distracted driver,’ we want to shift from a ‘don’t’ message to a ‘do’ message and we want to encourage people to become, sophisticated, attentive drivers. If you’re distracted — if you’re holding a smartphone up to your ear and you’re talking — you may well be looking straight down the road, but you develop tunnel vision. They think if they’re looking straight ahead, they’re paying attention, but no. They need to scan and there are particular ways that you can be taught to scan — and they’re easy.”
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