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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Escrito por Matt Richtel
Narrado por Fred Berman
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An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding human attention and the impact of technology on our brains.
Remarkably, today Reggie is a leading advocate who has helped spark a national effort targeting distracted driving, and the arc of his story provides a window through which Richtel pursues actionable solutions to help manage this crisis individually and as a society. A propulsive listen filled with fascinating scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth, A Deadly Wandering is an audiobook that can change-and save-lives.
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Escrito por Matt Richtel
Narrado por Fred Berman
Descrição
An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding human attention and the impact of technology on our brains.
Remarkably, today Reggie is a leading advocate who has helped spark a national effort targeting distracted driving, and the arc of his story provides a window through which Richtel pursues actionable solutions to help manage this crisis individually and as a society. A propulsive listen filled with fascinating scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth, A Deadly Wandering is an audiobook that can change-and save-lives.
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This is great non-fiction that ought to be required reading for any parent with a teenage driver in the family. The teenage driver ought to read it, too.
The book is based on a tragic accident that took place on a highway in Utah back in 2006. In the accident, 2 brilliant scientists were killed when a car driven by a young 19 year old 'good kid', who had been texting his girlfriend as he drove, strayed into their lane, clipped their car, and caused them to spin out of control. The story is told from multiple viewpoints- his, the law-enforcement people who doggedly pursued justice, his family, and the families of the victims, woven through all of it a history from WWII to the present on the science behind the study of attention. It's a brilliant blend of technology, social science, and real-life events. The book is extremely well-written and researched beautifully, and it should scare you straight every time you think about what can happen when technology (or anything else) takes your attention away from driving.
The book is based on a tragic accident that took place on a highway in Utah back in 2006. In the accident, 2 brilliant scientists were killed when a car driven by a young 19 year old 'good kid', who had been texting his girlfriend as he drove, strayed into their lane, clipped their car, and caused them to spin out of control. The story is told from multiple viewpoints- his, the law-enforcement people who doggedly pursued justice, his family, and the families of the victims, woven through all of it a history from WWII to the present on the science behind the study of attention. It's a brilliant blend of technology, social science, and real-life events. The book is extremely well-written and researched beautifully, and it should scare you straight every time you think about what can happen when technology (or anything else) takes your attention away from driving.
A tragic tale that reflects the power technology has over us. I went into this book not knowing anything about this case and the effect it had on texting legislation. After reading all the neurological reasons not to text and drive, I will no longer text while driving. A pretty quick read and one that will stay with you.
So much has already been said about A DEADLY WANDERING, especially since Matt Richtel won a Pulitzer Prize for this book, I hesitate to repeat. But I will say this: if you talk on your cell phone or text while you drive, even if you use a hands-free device, you may not want to finish reading A DEADLY WANDERING because you won’t like what it says. Richtel would say that you are in denial. If you don’t talk on your cell phone or text while you drive, you know people who do, and this book will absorb you. Maybe you will want to highlight lines throughout the book.I am one of those people who does not use my cell phone while I drive, and I don’t understand how this could be controversial. But Richtel tells the true story of Reggie Shaw, who, at first, proclaimed that he was not guilty of causing the deaths of two people even though he had been texting while he was driving. How could there be any question that he was distracted? And why do people insist that they can multitask while they drive?Richtel proposes that some people are that addicted to their cell phones. And he backs it up with scientific proof.But A DEADLY WANDERING does not read like a science book. The style of this book reminds me very much of Jon Krakauer's books. Here Richtel tells personal stories, some of people directly connected to Reggie’s story, others of the scientists who study the issues Reggie’s story brings up.Everyone should read this.
The dangers of distracted driving can hardly be over-stated. Mobile technology, either in the guise of telephone calls or texting, raises the potential for distraction exponentially. The ubiquity of cell phones and the apparently inability, especially among digital natives (people who have grown up using this technology), to relinquish even for a few minutes the devices that connect them to their friends has led to severe dangers on our roads. Using the case of one particular distracted driver whose inattention led the death of two rocket scientists, this book explores the rise of these new technologies, the science behind how they are affecting our brains and behaviour, and the growing consciousness that collectively we need to do more to curb our deadly distractedness.With its origins in a Pulitzer prize winning series of articles by Matt Richtel, this book deepens and widens the research. It explores the lives of all of the players in the case of Reggie Shaw, whose inattention led to the death of two rocket scientists mentioned above. And it constructs a narrative that attempts to dramatically heighten the tension around the confluence of events that led to the deadly accident and the process of redemption for the principal actor. There is no doubt that Richtel is a capable researcher. And he is definitely a capable journalist. And the issue of distracted driving definitely deserves greater attention. The only question then is whether turning what is in essence an extended magazine article into a book of this length is the best way to go about accomplishing that end. You’ll have to decide that for yourself. But even if I’m reluctant to recommend this book, I do want to confirm, succinctly, its central message: do not text while driving!