[gtirloni]

Unless you have some kind of crazy zen meditation technique, getting an email alert on Google Glass is 100% certain to distract you from whatever you are doing. Your eyes will automatically focus on it for a short period of time, your brain will then spend time processing it. That's how we are wired. And you can get notifications at any time.. perhaps while you're doing something that requires extra care.

People here are doing what they do best: rationalize a situation until it somehow makes sense that they should be allowed to do what they want to do, regardless.

When I started reading this thread I thought I would not engage in a discuss where people cannot accept a distraction is a distraction is a distraction. Apparently, I'm weak in that regard.

[mikeash]

I'm simply criticizing a person who took a completely inflexible and dogmatic position, namely that "A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road." And further stated that all arguments otherwise were simply attempts to rationalize unsafe behavior. All I'm doing is pointing out that this implies that arguing you should be able to e.g. turn on your headlights is "rationalizing unsafe behavior" according to that metric.