{"id":168368204,"date":"2010-05-03T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168368204"},"modified":"2010-05-03T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:56:44","slug":"looking-but-not-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168368204","title":{"rendered":"Looking but Not Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Bikeleague.org Blog by Darren<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe bottom line is that drivers talking on cell phones may look at you but not see you. Here\u2019s chilling section of the paper:<br \/>\n    Inattention Blindness \u2013 Vision is the most important sense we use for safe driving. It\u2019s the source of the majority of information when driving. Yet, drivers using hands-free and handheld cell phones have a tendency to \u201clook at\u201d but not \u201csee\u201d objects. Estimates indicate drivers using cell phones look at but fail to see up to 50 percent of the information in their driving environment. Cognitive distraction contributes to a withdrawal of attention from the visual scene, where all the information the driver sees is not processed. This may be due to\u2026how our brains compensate for receiving too much information by not sending some visual information to the working memory. When this happens, drivers are not aware of the filtered information and cannot act on it.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/looking-but-not-seeing\/\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/looking-but-not-seeing\/<\/a>oldId.20100503165644197<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bikeleague.org Blog by Darren &#8230; The bottom line is that drivers talking on cell phones may look at you but not see you. Here\u2019s chilling section of the paper: Inattention Blindness \u2013 Vision is the most important sense we use for safe driving. It\u2019s the source of the majority of information when driving. Yet, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168368204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking but Not Seeing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168368204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168368204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168368204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168368204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168368204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168368204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168368204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}