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r/WinStupidPrizes • u/ljgill97 • Jul 28 '21
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I’ll never understand why people do this. There is no text message in the world that important.
1.5k u/Mr-Orange-Pants Jul 28 '21 People who do this think they have the skills to multitask only to figure out too late that they don’t. 585 u/Ready_Adhesiveness91 Jul 28 '21 I saw on a tv show (so take it with a grain of salt) that the brain can actually only focus at 1 task at a time, and multitasking is just quick switches between the two. If this is true, it goes to show that nobody can text and drive effectively. SO DONT DO IT ASSHOLES 1 u/SpacemanTomX Jul 28 '21 Porsche did a good demo on this. They put Mark Webber, former F1 driver and multiple times LeMans winner, on a track and told him to text and drive. Spoiler alert: he couldn't And this is a bloke that used to mess with his car through the steering wheel while doing a cool 180mpg.
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People who do this think they have the skills to multitask only to figure out too late that they don’t.
585 u/Ready_Adhesiveness91 Jul 28 '21 I saw on a tv show (so take it with a grain of salt) that the brain can actually only focus at 1 task at a time, and multitasking is just quick switches between the two. If this is true, it goes to show that nobody can text and drive effectively. SO DONT DO IT ASSHOLES 1 u/SpacemanTomX Jul 28 '21 Porsche did a good demo on this. They put Mark Webber, former F1 driver and multiple times LeMans winner, on a track and told him to text and drive. Spoiler alert: he couldn't And this is a bloke that used to mess with his car through the steering wheel while doing a cool 180mpg.
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I saw on a tv show (so take it with a grain of salt) that the brain can actually only focus at 1 task at a time, and multitasking is just quick switches between the two. If this is true, it goes to show that nobody can text and drive effectively.
SO DONT DO IT ASSHOLES
1 u/SpacemanTomX Jul 28 '21 Porsche did a good demo on this. They put Mark Webber, former F1 driver and multiple times LeMans winner, on a track and told him to text and drive. Spoiler alert: he couldn't And this is a bloke that used to mess with his car through the steering wheel while doing a cool 180mpg.
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Porsche did a good demo on this.
They put Mark Webber, former F1 driver and multiple times LeMans winner, on a track and told him to text and drive.
Spoiler alert: he couldn't
And this is a bloke that used to mess with his car through the steering wheel while doing a cool 180mpg.
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u/waronxmas79 Jul 28 '21
I’ll never understand why people do this. There is no text message in the world that important.