Text 12505, 48 rader
Skriven 2014-04-23 18:36:22 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12431 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: Re: social  was: Lost Friends
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-=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to Nancy Backus on 21 Apr 14  23:15:40 <=-

 NB>> Dunno... even the self-driving car probably would need some attention,
 NB>> just in case...

 SH> They won't be ready until they are totally autonomous.

Then it's likely a ways off, still...  Until then, one needs a human
chauffeur to have a "self-driving" car...  :)
 
 SH>> Until then, I wish the phones came with an interlock
 SH>> that prevented texting while driving. Unfortunately, they are not
 SH>> advanced enough to distinguish between a driver and a passenger.
 NB>> That would be an interesting technology, to be able to tell... :)

 SH> Yes, but one that is a ways off, I think.

Quite.
 
 NB>> It seems to me that even dealing with texting and phone calls while
 NB>> driving can take attention from driving... even if hands-free and
 NB>> all... but then, I do tend to be a bit more luddite...  :)

 SH> The Sync system in our car makes hands-free easy for phone calls.
 SH> While I have had the system read text messages to me, I will wait until
 SH> stopped to reply. As for phone calls, Ruth would verify that driving
 SH> comes first. She has had to wait through pauses in conversation while
 SH> I dealt with the more immediate driving need. Other than that, it is no
 SH> more distracting than carrying on a conversation with a passenger in
 SH> the vehicle. One can get in trouble there too unless the driver
 SH> realizes that driving is the priority and conversation is secondary.

The main difference I see between a phone conversation and one that is
happening within the car with a passenger is that there's a fighting
chance that the passenger might be clued in to what is happening outside
the car that might require the driver's immediate attention and be able
to quit talking (or easily understand the driver's complete focus on
driving for the moment), while a person on the other end of the phone
probably wouldn't catch on so quickly, not being there in person...

My sister often calls me while she's enroute somewhere, admittedly
handsfree, but still I wonder how safe it really is...  :)

ttyl           neb

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