[82335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Jul 12 17:19:25 2005
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:17:39 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <p0620072cbef94a22ccbd@[10.0.1.3]>; from Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> on Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:34:32PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> The problem with mobile phones in the car has less to do with
> taking a person's hand off the wheel (although that is something to
> be concerned about), and more to do with the fact that the driver is
> distracted by talking to the person on the other end.
They say this, but it doesn't work that way for me, as a datapoint.
It's not the conversation that's the big thing, IME; it's *holding a
phone up to your ear*, which is an action we train ourselves to follow
up with *ignoring what's going on around us*.
When I talk while driving *without* a headset, my driving's usually
fine... it's my *navigation* that fails totally. Using a headset, both
are fine. YMMV.
Shutting down the networks just because they can be used to trigger a
bomb is asinine, though, yes.
Cheers,
-- jra
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