{"id":58966,"date":"2019-08-22T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=58966"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:43:24","slug":"mobile-phones-are-jeopardising-our-safety-but-not-how-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=58966","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones are jeopardising our safety, but not how you&#039;d think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Mobile phones are giving us tunnel vision.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst taking the lift downstairs at work, I realised that I\u2019d not even noticed that it had stopped and a man had gotten in. The worst part is, my phone is only functional on WiFi so I wasn\u2019t actually doing anything of importance and no one was evening texting me &#8211; I was aimlessly staring at a screen to keep myself busy for the 30 seconds it takes to get from my floor to the next.<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking &#8211; how much are we really missing by focusing on our phones? Would I have noticed if the man needed my help? Or if I\u2019d dropped something? Probably not. And, worse still, would I have noticed if he was a threat to my safety?<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder about how people manage to remember such specific details about people\u2019s faces when it comes to police sketching &#8211; how do people remember faces they&#8217;ve seen for the first time? Imagine trying to create an image having not actually seeing someone\u2019s face. Would you be able to describe an attacker by just seeing their reflection through your phone?<\/p>\n<p>Whilst driving, we know that it only takes seconds of taking your eyes off the road for something terrible to happen, but why do we not think about how distracted we are in other circumstances?<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Almost all of us have been in a situation where we&#8217;ve missed something due to phone distraction. We&#8217;ve bumped into things, walked past someone we knew, had to rewind part of a film &#8211; and all of these are pretty harmless. But, sometimes, missing something can be life-changing.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told, as kids, to look left, right and left again before crossing the road in order to ensure that nothing has come round the corner in the time it took to complete the sequence, but now we\u2019re just looking down. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/352788\/spike-in-pedestrian-deaths-linked-to-distracted-phone-users\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">According to a March 2017 report<\/a> from the US Governors Highway Safety Association, there has been an increase in pedestrian deaths due to mobile phone distractions. We\u2019re partaking in a real-life version of <i>Frogger<\/i> because we&#8217;re busy playing <i>Frogger<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting potential dangers is not exactly easy, you can\u2019t predict the outcome of any situation. But, you\u2019re far more likely to be able to see harm coming when you\u2019re actually paying attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/culture\/6359\/mobile-phones-are-jeopardising-our-safety-but-not-how-youd-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mobile phones are giving us tunnel vision. Whilst taking the lift downstairs at work, I realised that I\u2019d not even noticed that it had stopped and a man had gotten in. The worst part is, my phone is only functional on WiFi so I wasn\u2019t actually doing anything of importance and no one was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58968,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58966\/revisions\/58968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}