Exactly, I remember in grad school running experiments and demos - we'd have the person do 2 or 3 simultaneous tasks and required them to do it faster and faster. The participants were very good at 1 or two tasks, but performance deteriorated with each extra task with most people's performance completely breaking down after 3 or 4 tasks. When you're driving you already are engaged in two very attention grabbing tasks, now add the cell phone - driving behavior breaks down by a lot.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:18 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Its not a generational thing, its a human limitation thing. So much >> attention is captured by the cell phone conversation that only a >> minimal amount is left over for other tasks. When driving at 60 mph, >> that quarter of a second delay is major. > > And humans suck at multitasking, no matter how good they think they are. > >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Ras Tafari<rastaf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> i would surmise that us, the video game generation, are far better >>> drivers and multi-taskers than the average >>> person. > > Everyone thinks they are better than average. Alas ... ;) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
