Paule CastroHostSo we just into the first couple of minutes of the show, we'll fling on a piece of music which will wake up the Manchurian candidate and you to go, wait, wait, it's the tech guys.
Can you pull over now? This came up some time ago when California law changed to the extent you were not to use cell phones while you're in the car.
Nevertheless, and we studied this at the time to see the dangers of cell phones and radios in the car, any numbers of accidents have been caused by people tinkering or distracted, even if they're not touching anything.
Now, I reached down and monkeyed with the radio knobs and heater and all the rest of it for sure.
A psychology test, I think I mentioned a couple of years ago, a psychology test that shone a weak laser towards the cornea of the driver and picked up the reflection could show which direction the driver was looking in.
And when a phone call came in or the passenger talked, even though the driver kept his head pointing or her head pointing forward, the gaze went off into the upper left or upper right, which is the psychological way to say, were you using the left or the right half of your brain? But whatever half the brain it was, it wasn't being used for driving.
So we just into the first couple of minutes of the show, we'll fling on a piece of music which will wake up the Manchurian candidate and you to go, wait, wait, it's the tech guys.
Can you pull over now? This came up some time ago when California law changed to the extent you were not to use cell phones while you're in the car.
Nevertheless, and we studied this at the time to see the dangers of cell phones and radios in the car, any numbers of accidents have been caused by people tinkering or distracted, even if they're not touching anything.
Now, I reached down and monkeyed with the radio knobs and heater and all the rest of it for sure.
A psychology test, I think I mentioned a couple of years ago, a psychology test that shone a weak laser towards the cornea of the driver and picked up the reflection could show which direction the driver was looking in.
And when a phone call came in or the passenger talked, even though the driver kept his head pointing or her head pointing forward, the gaze went off into the upper left or upper right, which is the psychological way to say, were you using the left or the right half of your brain? But whatever half the brain it was, it wasn't being used for driving.
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