No matter how bad it may get all around you - weather, missiles, traffic,
children, SWMBO digging fingernails into inner thigh demanding an immediate
landing - one must continue to fly the airplane (aviate-drive/control the
car).
Wilton
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From: "OK Don" <okd...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - video of accident whilst sexting
There is a phrase in aviation: "aviate, navigate, communicate". It means
that this is the order of importance:
1) "Aviate" - fly the aircraft (driving - drive the car)
2) "Navigate" - know where you are and where you are going (driving - same
thing)
3) "Communicate" - talk to the controller and weather people (driving -
talking at all)
You only do the #3 when you are not being challenged by #'s 1 & 2.
There is also the concept of the "sterile cockpit" at critical times
(landing) that forbids none task related communication among crew members
and passengers (in small craft). I can relate this to having to tell the
kids to shut up when I was negotiating unknown highway interchanges at 70
mph (113 KMH for Hendrik) in rush hour.
While you are moving in three dimensions, the weather is more of a
challenge, and you are generally faster in an aircraft than a car, the car
is closer to the ground and other hard objects most of the time.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Hendrik and Fay <heni...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you'll find that research indicates that talking and listening
whilst driving does increase the chance of an accident.
The brain is a computer and it has limited resources, once some of those
resources are diverted to something else, less is available for the
primary
task.
It could be argued that Woman do better at multi tasking and therefore
should be better when it comes to driving and talking.
I don't use the phone when I am driving, mainly because it is an
expensive
fine if busted and I also feel that I do get distracted when I am on the
phone. I can feel my brain instantly switching off the task of driving as
soon as the phone rings.
As a test you can talk on the phone and then reply to an email, how does
that work for you?
Or try to reverse parallel park while composing a text message, according
to your proposition that driving and talking on the phone is easy, this
should be easy for you.
Or even watch a TV show and natter on the phone, how much of that TV show
do you recall?
Basically you are asking your brain to do two different things at the
same
time and some may be able to do this quite well but most can't.
Sure driving a vehicle is not the same as composing an email but the
problem arise if the routine is broken by unexpected events. Basically
the
brain is on auto pilot and diverting processing power to the phone call,
so
even though you see the ball roll out from behind the parked car, it
takes
longer for the brain to process that information and provide a warning
that
a child may be running after that ball.
So yes I agree that driving and talking on the phone is not hard but the
hard thing is to respond to extraordinary circumstances and yes some get
that far caught up in the conversation that they even miss the basic
things
like traffic lights and stop signs.
Obviously drivers with lots of experience would do better than some
spotty
faced teenager with little driving experience but everyone tunes out to a
certain extend.
Also with today's technology of message banks and call diversion and
such,
there is no need to instantly pick up the phone. Is the call so important
you are willing to risk your or others lives?
http://unews.utah.edu/old/p/062206-1.html
Actually I did my multi combination truck test a while back and whilst I
could have a chat with the driving instructor/tester most times, there
where a couple of times I had to use all my brain power to accomplish the
task at hand.
Hendrik
who has never been fined for using a phone
--
OK Don
"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few
who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."
WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
2013 F150, 18 mpg
2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg
1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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