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Rich26189 writes:
"In a somewhat pre-emptive move Google is lobbying against state legislation that would ban drivers from using Google Glass while driving. I, for one, would like to see such legislation passed. There is enough distracted driving due to hand-held cell phones and Google Glass would just be just one more task for the brain to cope with.
This from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/25/us-googl e-glass-lobbying-idUSBREA1O0P920140225"
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:56PM
I know a woman who could carry on a conversation via sms with an old school dumb phone using only the T-9 keyboard with one hand. She typed complete sentences never once looking at the screen. She'd peek to read, but really, she never took her eyes off what she was doing. She refused to move to a smartphone.
(Not advocating this, just pointing out absolute statements are never absolute, and also reminding you that lying with statistics is time proven art.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by zsau on Monday March 03 2014, @10:38PM
Proves nothing. I don't need to look at the keyboard I'm typing this on (even if I did, it wouldn't help because the letters don't correspond at all to the key I want), but that doesn't mean I can pay attention to what's happening around me and to what's happening on screen.
This is the entire point of the stats and the studies and the bans: you don't realise how much attention you're taking off the rest of the world to write something down, especially when you don't need to look at it to tell what you're doing.
And you don't realise how long the half a second you look down at the screen is, and how quickly the half a second becomes five seconds.