Sultan Albukhari

February 3, 2014

Reading 3A

Summary #1 

In the NPR article "Multitasking In The Car: Just Like Drunken Driving". driving and using cell – phones as calling and texting is dangerous according to what David Meyer says "If you are driving while cell-phoning, then your performance is going to be as poor as if you were legally drunk".Even though if it was a hands free device it still dangerous cause it distracts our focusing on the road. Moreover, novice drivers need all the brain participation they can get for the driving. Overtime levels of focusing changes with experience from that driving becomes automatic. Scientists call this phenomenon "automaticity" it let us do one thing while focusing on something else and its helps us to multitask. In addition, scientists make a study on a professional pianist as a result its shows that asking the pianist while he is playing it makes him lose focusing. Finally according to what David Meyer says and that driving need a big amount of brain power, also from the pianist experiment and the study by The National Highway. The author conclusion is driving while cell-phoning it dangerous and make you lose concentration in driving.

Hamilton, J. (2008, October 16). Multitasking In The Car: Just Like Drunken Driving. NPR News.                               Available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95702512. Accessed Feb 02, 2014