{"id":839,"date":"2011-02-04T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:29:26","slug":"the-danger-of-texting-some-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/the-danger-of-texting-some-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Texting: Some examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silly humans think they can do two things at once despite overwhelming evidence that they can barely do one thing at once.  If you can&#8217;t walk and chew gum at the same time, what makes you think you can walk and text simultaneously?  Read on to see some dramatic examples.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPpzj4PjNjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Then you have a boy in Milan Italy trying to walk along a subway platform while using a Sony PSP (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1353223\/Hero-policeman-Alessandro-Micalizzi-jumped-rail-tracks-rescue-boy-fell-platform-engrossed-Sony-PSP.html\">article<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWDNT1bQhSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t even walk and text at the same time, imagine how much harder it must be to drive while texting. When you&#8217;re walking and texting, you might fall into a fountain or off a train platform. You&#8217;re mostly putting yourself at risk. In Champaign a couple years ago, a student walked in front of a bus because she was distracted by her phone. When you&#8217;re driving, you&#8217;re putting other people at risk too, both those in your car and those around you. Here&#8217;s what happened to when a bus driver was texting while driving in San Antonio, Texas:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCHdZxO4_tQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few public safety advocates been trying to make people more aware of the problem. Here&#8217;s a powerful public service video from Great Britain (aimed at teens or older &#8212; this isn&#8217;t for young children):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0LCmStIw9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a well-made documentary about texting and driving produced by AT&amp;T:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DebhWD6ljZs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please stop texting while driving. Just because you haven&#8217;t had an accident doesn&#8217;t mean you can text and drive safely. You&#8217;ve just been lucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can&#8217;t multitask.  Want some evidence?  Here are a few videos, some funny and some decidedly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}