article on SMS and driving

On 2005-06-02, Carl Brewer (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

No suprises here ...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Textings-full-menace-revealed/2005/06/02/1117568288532.html

Pretty amazing, huh?

Wow! It's like watching yourself typing at a touchpad is even worse
than taking your mind off the road, and a hand off the wheel to merely
talk into a mobile phone!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall

TimC said:

On 2005-06-02, Carl Brewer (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

No suprises here ...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Textings-full-menace-revealed/2005/06/02/1117568288532.html

Pretty amazing, huh?

Wow! It's like watching yourself typing at a touchpad is even worse
than taking your mind off the road, and a hand off the wheel to merely
talk into a mobile phone!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall

Sadly many academics have to do this stuff to tell us things that are common sense (or seem that way given some time!).

Seems common sense now that the earth revolves around the sun, but some academic had to figure it out first!