{"id":1138,"date":"2009-06-30T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/but-officer-it-wasnt-like-i-was-texting.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:01:00","slug":"but-officer-it-wasnt-like-i-was-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/but-officer-it-wasnt-like-i-was-texting.html","title":{"rendered":"But Officer, It Wasn&#8217;t Like I Was Texting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit.  A Car &amp; Driver study wanted to see just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10272628-94.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">how bad texting was for your reaction time<\/a> in a real car (not a simulator).  It turns out&#8230; pretty damn bad.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10272628-94.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 360px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnwk.1d\/i\/bto\/20090625\/car_driver_mag_dwt_road_test.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While younger drivers (who are presumably more skilled texters) fared better than us middle-aged folks, all drivers were significantly worse off texting than drinking.  Even when driving well past the legal intoxication limit.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/drive-your-drunk-self-home.html\">the DJ from last week<\/a> who was sort of encouraging folks to have another for the road and drive home was on to something after all.  If you&#8217;ve had a drink or two, most people will sit up extra straight in the seat and glue their eyes to the road for fear of getting a DWI.  No danger of texting there.  But who among us hasn&#8217;t at least tried to read a quick incoming text while driving home from work stone sober?  It seems we&#8217;d be safer stopping off for a couple of pops on the way.  Hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit. A Car &amp; Driver study wanted to see just how bad texting was for your reaction<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/but-officer-it-wasnt-like-i-was-texting.html\" title=\"Read But Officer, It Wasn&#8217;t Like I Was Texting!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}