If you read my last post you may be able to see where we're heading with this. A Few days ago I took a 30 minutes walk to a boot sale close to mine and another 30 minutes back and on my way back I witnessed three looking down on their phones texting and driving. One of which was on a major road and the others on a less busy road. A few days ago while I was in a cab, I also witnessed the cab driver go on his phone to look through pictures and text for a short while at traffic stops. The cab driver obviously scared me but for some reason I thought it was wise to keep it cool (basically playing with my life there). I did a quick check on the seat belt and braced myself incase of any impact. Safe to say nothing happened instead all I witnessed was more texting and swearing from him to other drivers on the road as his rage made the other drivers look like they couldn't drive.
While driving our brain makes a number of calculations. Always controlling your moves and keeping you alert of the other drivers and pedestrians on the road. If we were to be doing something else while driving, we'll most certainly have our brains multitasking, giving us less times to evade unplanned disasters. If you were driving focused on a country road, No distractions, whatsoever and a fox or deer does what it knows how to do best by jumping in the road and tries to kill you. There's a much higher chance for your brain to quickly think of many possibilities and offer you the best possible move depending on your capabilities in a split compared to the later. One may be able to argue that this will reduce the damages or even prevent a disaster.
Now imagine that same scenario but the inclusion of multitasking. For the benefit of this blog and the increase in the way we use our phone everyday, we shall use Texting or making a phone calls the subject of the matter. Some people may be able to multitask perfectly but whether you like It or not doing two things at the same times means you've borrowed concentration from one activity and given it to the other activity. Even the activities with the top priorities lose some concentration benefits (hence why some girlfriends don't like you doing anything else while speaking to them😉). When you're driving and making a phone call or texting your attention is very much divided. personally I'll even say to anyone never ever to text while driving. Your eyes are literally off the road while you're doing that. You never ever know what will happen the split second you take your eyes of the road. This puts your life and the life of others in danger. Now with phones calls its a whole different ball game because you can even connect your phone to your car and speak hands free. This is say is definitely much safer than texting or holding on to the phone with hand or with one shoulder.
This post however suggest one more communication method that might even be safer than hands free phone calls while driving. In my last post I explained that phone calls require much more attention than voice notes because while you speak, you're also scanning for words that my be altered by the second party. Hence, it requires much attention. however, with voice notes the time you're speaking is different from the time you're listening. This way you have more concentration put on your driving. With The just talk app you can even do more with voice notes. For those who don't know, Just talk is the first and only social network with a focus on Voice notes only. No texting whatsoever just audio. Many times I've explained that the uses of the app are endless and in time we would be able to share each of it's many functions in many scenarios like this one. In future just talk would be able to connect to your car's infotainment system and play out all the messages you want with voice command. You would also be able to reply to your messages and record new ones without touching your phone. Imagine being current on twitter on the go. No more looking down on your phone. Instead of walking down the road and driving with music on you could just be going down your timeline and getting all the current info about the world that's JUST TALK. I hope you've enjoyed this content so far. I'm not a writer, in fact I hate writing, but i'll do my best to keep you guys updated with more info. support my by downloading the Just Talk app for free from the google play store.
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