E-learner UK Road Safety
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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using mobile phones or other portable devices. While driving is extremely dangerous, driving is a very complex task for the brain to handle. It requires your full attention talking on a phone. Divert your attention from the task of driving, which can lead to tragic consequences. Even when you have completed a phone call, your mind may still be thinking about that conversation. Imagine that you're driving down the road and the customer you're travelling to cause your mobile phone instead of deferring the call to later or pulling into a safe area To answer the call, you decide to answer the call hands free while you drive. Even though your hands are still on the steering wheel, your mind is processing the conversation. The brain can only focus on one thing at a time when you try to do two things at once, your brain cannot fulfil both tasks successfully. This means that you may miss important developments in the situation around you. Researchers call this in attentional blindness when you look, but you don't see which is caused by a cognitive distraction. In this case, the phone call. You may not see a traffic ahead or a child stepping off the pavement, or you may. They're out of your lane