{"product_id":"distracted-9781517916565","title":"Distracted","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApplying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted driving   Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people's minds and behavior? Robert Rosenberger contends that a better understanding of why this combination of technologies is so dangerous could effectively adjust both habits and laws.    Rosenberger brings together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science to leverage a postphenomenological perspective that reveals how our smartphones make us such bad drivers. Reviewing decades of empirical studies in cognitive science, he shows that we have developed habits of perception regarding our compulsive technology usehabits that may wrest our attention away from the road.   Distracted develops innovat","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885934915927,"sku":"9781517916565","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517916565.jpg?v=1722538217","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/distracted-9781517916565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}