{"id":258988653,"date":"2013-03-17T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258988653"},"modified":"2013-03-17T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:17:33","slug":"left-turning-drivers-cant-concentrate-while-on-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258988653","title":{"rendered":"LEFT TURNING DRIVERS CAN&#8217;T CONCENTRATE WHILE ON THE PHONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Mar. 1st The Atlantic article, &quot;Using a hands-free phone that leaves both hands free to steer may make the physical act of turning left at an intersection easier to pull off, but it doesn&#8217;t make it any safer. That&#8217;s because attempting to make a left turn at a busy intersection taxes the brain more than turning right or driving straight through. And having a conversation at the same time further impairs the brain&#8217;s ability to focus on the road.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;These findings, (Brain Activity During Driving with Distraction: An Immersive fMRI Study) published in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, provide neural evidence for why hands-free phone technology isn&#8217;t a good alternative to cell phone use. Instead, it distracts the brain when it most needs to be paying attention to the road&#8230; &#8216;Hands free&#8217; not does mean &#8216;brains free,&#8217; is how Canadian researchers put it&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/16r9YNX\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/16r9YNX<\/a><br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Mar. 1st The Atlantic article, &quot;Using a hands-free phone that leaves both hands free to steer may make the physical act of turning left at an intersection easier to pull off, but it doesn&#8217;t make it any safer. That&#8217;s because attempting to make a left turn at a busy intersection taxes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258988653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LEFT TURNING DRIVERS CAN&#8217;T CONCENTRATE WHILE ON THE PHONE&#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-258988653","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\/258988653","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=258988653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258988653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258988653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258988653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258988653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}