Out to lunch

Texting while driving and not paying attention

The week before last, two Northwest pilots overshot Minneapolis, their destination, by a hundred and fifty miles, apparently oblivious of their instruments and their internal clocks, as well as of a barrage of increasingly desperate radio calls from air-traffic control. Afterward, they explained that they’d logged onto their personal laptop computers and become so engrossed—not in FarmVille or porn, or even good old off-line activity, such as a ... Full Story »

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Daniel Stocking
3.9
by Daniel Stocking - Nov. 4, 2009

This story is very relevant to our era of technology, great topic choice.

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