Now That's Some Quick ThinkingWhat a brilliant solution to being carjacked - crash into some innocent victim's car and break some innocent person's leg! They mention the charges that had been against the carjacker, but what about...
Now That's Some Quick ThinkingLaura Bush liquidateed her boy friend Yeah, it is very juvenile. But now where near as juvenile as some of this retarded crap: -- wisdom, love, and respect (spelling...
On KCET (one of the local PBS stations in SoCal) there was a show on this afternoon called Scientific American Frontiers hosted by Alan Alda. One of the segments in the program involved a driving siumulator at Ford which does a pretty kickbutt job of simulating the driving experience - it's a dome suspended on hydraulic stilts, much like a flight simulator, with a 360 degree computer generated view of the area around the car. They put Alan Alda behind the wheel of a mock Taurus and measured his ability to track potentially dangerous activity both in front of him and behind him while he also tried to dial a handheld cellular phone. The Ford researcher said that normal adults are aware of about 97% of the events that occur in front of them and behind them when they are completely focused on their driving; that number drops to about 87% when the adult is dialing a cell phone. When they perform the same test on teenagers they expected the teenagers to do better because of their familiarity with videogames and a generally better ability to mulbreastask. They were surprised to discover that the teenagers' awareness of the potentially dangerous events dropped to only 47%! In other words, teens missed MORE THAN HALF of potentially dangerous events that occured on the road around them while they were dialing a cell phone.
Go ahead - tell me I'm "anti-teen" now. :)
-- Life is short - drive fast!
