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Podcast: Peggy Smedley Show
Episode: Are You a Super Tasker?
Description: Peggy and David Strayer, University of Utah, discuss how people come into driving with a false premise that they are good multitaskers. They discuss why we are conditioned to answer our phone when it rings or pings. They also discuss: How much of the world’s population are in fact good multitaskers and where to go to take a test to see if you are a super tasker. How we started introducing technology in the automobiles in the 1930s and how it has kept morphing. Autonomous technology and the impact it will have on the distracted dr...