News - Hands-free technology causing driver ‘inattention blindness’

[kalniel]

So research councils rejects my grant proposals on HIV research to fund this??!!

What are you doing applying for HIV research funding from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety?!

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety sponsored the study,

[miniyazz]

Lol!

[Majigor]

It only took 2 years for them to find out that
“It takes longer for distracted drivers to connect what they see to an appropriate reaction such as braking or swerving to safety” and that having a chat with an incompetent voice recognition system may prove distracting.
Do students in Utah not have anything better to study than stuff we already know?
Perhaps new cars should have some sort of sensory deprivation cell for the driver where he/she cannot hear, see or feel any non driving related stimulus.

It didn't take them 2 years to figure that out, it took two years to complete a study that came to a conclusion that, yes, they probably already knew to be true. The way research works is that you have to go through the motions and get something documented with evidence so that you can make a case to change something.

Did you even read the paper? The researchers are never just figuring something out and having a revelation, it just comes across that way when your only source is another media article picking one quote out of many to make a point in the context of said article.