每日一翻：Drivers While Voice Texting Are Still Distracted

You don’t need to be in a car crash or to see the horrifying safety statistics to know that you should never text while driving. A driver simply cannot look at both a smartphone screen and the road at the same time. Taking your eyes off the road for even five seconds at 55 miles per hour is like driving the length of a football field blindfolded.

你不需要经历车祸或者看令人恐怖的安全统计数据就能知道在开车时坚决不能发短信。司机不能同时兼顾智能手机屏幕和路。以时速55英里开车，即使把你的视线从路上移开5秒就像蒙住眼睛开足球场那么远的距离。

But could a head-mounted, voice-controlled display like Google Glass solve the distracted-driving problem?

但是像谷歌眼镜这样的头戴式可以语音控制的设备就能解决开车分心的问题了吗？

In a word, “No,” according to a recent University of Central Florida study.

中佛罗里达大学最新的研究的结论是“不能”。

Researchers found that drivers in a simulator reacted slowly to sudden traffic emergencies regardless of whether they were thumbing texts into their smartphones or dictating them to Google Glass.

Glass-wearing drivers did recover more quickly from near accidents than hand-texters. Could be because they weren’t fishing around on the floor for their dropped smartphone.

用谷歌眼镜的司机比用手打字的司机应对事故的反映更快。很可能是因为他们不用四处找滑落在地上的手机。

The real problem is driver multitasking. Texting is especially problematic because it involves simultaneous manual, visual and cognitive distraction. Glass doesn’t completely eliminate the problem because simply looking at the road doesn’t necessarily mean you’re paying attention to it.

真正的问题是司机一心多用。打字尤其干扰严重，因为它会干扰动作、视觉和认知。谷歌眼镜没有完全的解决问题，因为只是盯着路并不意味着你在注意它。

—Larry Greenemeier