Not only is it dangerous to drive while talking on your mobile phone or iPhone or Blackberry, it’s also not good for your relationship either.
So says a professor who thinks that if driving while distracted by your technological gadget is bad enough, imagine what trying to hold up your end of the conversation in your relationship might be. Relationships rely on good, clear communication. Driving relies on good, clear undivided attention and no distraction. The two don’t seem entirely compatible, so it seems to reason the good professor has a point.
“In general, cell phone usage while driving might lead to missed relationship stop lights, slow reactions to dangerous relationship circumstances, loss of control of one’s part of the interaction, and interaction mistakes that could lead to conflict, hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and possibly even serious damage to the relationship,” Rosenblatt says in the article.
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“Various friends have told me over the years — and it’s something I’ve experienced myself — that it often seems like a person isn’t really “listening” when they talk to them when they’re driving. Divided attention usually means one or both tasks end up getting the short end of the straw. That could have dangerous consequences — not just for ourselves, but for the health of our relationship.”
It seems to me that what you’re really talking about here isn’t putting down iPhones in the car, but being extremely wary of serious conversation in a moving vehicle, where one of the people in the conversation is also the driver? The driving will distract the driver from the serious convo, and the serious convo will distract the driving from the person behind the wheel.
Driving suffers, conversation suffers, relationship suffers. Bad on three fronts. Let us all stick to banalities and singing 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall!