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    Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth
    Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth
    Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth
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    Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    By Edward Lake, Steven Gacovino and Luke Russell

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    We all want to believe we can drive responsibly and monitor distractions. But our attention is limited by nature, and we are often very subtly distracted from noticing things right in front of us. Depending on what you're doing while you're driving, you could literally miss seeing a giraffe grazing on the roadside. Because of distractions, many people have failed to see a gorilla beating its chest right in front of them, and this is no joke.

    We really are not good multi-taskers when our attention is spread over tasks that require dedicated attention. That's why conversations on cellphones turn out to be a serious distraction to drivers. Read this book and see what you think. And then see what you think about whether it's fair to the rest of the people in your car or on the road when you allow yourself to be distracted in the special way that cellphones can distract.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward Lake
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310552342
    Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth
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    Edward Lake

    As the second founding member of Gacovino, Lake & Associates, Edward Lake brings exceptional marketing and advertising skills to our New York practice. This complement to the experience and skill of our personal injury attorneys have helped to build our practice into one of the most distinguished firms in the state.Edward Lake earned his law degree from Touro College Law Center. He is currently the director of the Judith Lake Charitable Foundation.

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      Distracted Driving - Edward Lake

      Distracted Driving: The Multi-Tasking Myth

      Copyright 2014 by Steven D. Gacovino, Esq., Edward Lake, Esq., Luke W Russell

      Smashwords Edition

      Dedication

      To those who have suffered at the hands of distracted drivers, and to those who realize technology must not master us.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Do As I Say

      Myth: Talking on the Phone While Driving Is the Same as Talking to a Passenger

      Multi-Tasking and Inattentional Blindness

      Legal Ramifications

      Take the Pledge

      Help for Victims

      About the Authors

      Preface

      We all like to think we're in control of our mind. It's kind of hard to imagine that we would be like the people who demonstrate in experiment after experiment that our attention easily gets away from us.

      Who would think, for instance, that you could be told to keep an eye on a group of basketball players gathered together passing a couple basketballs while a gorilla walks onto the middle of the screen and waves at you – and yet you don't even notice the gorilla.

      Many experiments have shown how easily our attention is diverted, while we go on thinking we are alert to what's right in front of us. We easily fail to see obvious things...including things that might need to be noticed while we're driving a car.

      We all wonder who's having all those reported accidents blamed on texting or talking on cellphones while driving. Are those stupid drivers? Or are they distracted at just the moment when full attention is required?

      The fact is that almost everyone can talk on a phone while driving without having a wreck. It's also a fact that attention spread too thin at critical moments is behind many accidents. That's what this little book is about – the critical moments when our full attention is required to operate a vehicle without causing harm to others or ourselves. The issue lies in those very short moments – not in the undeniable fact that we rarely have an accident while talking on the phone.

      Accidents are called accidents because they are unusual. Someone slips on a small puddle of water on a restaurant floor because the puddle is nearly invisible, or steps on a nail in the grass at the city park.

      Auto accidents rarely occur, compared to how many times we venture onto the roads. When we talk about accidents, we are talking only about rare moments. But cellphone use is

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