Cell phones while driving (language)

[PepperElf]

correct me if I'm wrong but don't several states have texting while driving or on the phone while driving outlawed?

it's illegal in texas too i think
but it doesn't stop people from doing it

[Dreamstalker]

A recent study showed that the kinds of people who habitually multitask are actually the worst at multitasking.

My definition of multitasking is thus: the maximum number of tasks that I can perform while paying a sufficient level of attention to each of them (varies depending on what the tasks are; fixing a computer is a higher priority than the show I may be watching at the same time, so while I'm still doing two things at once the computer gets more of my attention). IMO, being capable of doing 15 things at once is irrelevant if you wind up doing a crap job on everything.

[Nohbody]

It was pretty embarrassing for my brother; this is the third or fourth time my dad has name-dropped him to get out of some kind of ticketable offense, but the first time he'd actually done it in the town where my brother works. I keep telling my brother not to do it (we don't have a real relationship with our dad - long story), but my brother feels guilty about saying "no."

So, how guilty will said brother be when said dad injures or outright kills someone because the dad wasn't earlier made to take any responsibility for his actions?

And, related to the OP, a car magazine (I think "Car and Driver", but may have been "Road and Track") a few months had an article testing reactions while testing. The specifics varied, of course, but in general while texting made reactions nearly twice as long, and that was just on a relatively simple few tests in a controlled environment, not on the chaos of real-world roads.