The Metropolis

Becoming a headphone zombie makes you safer at crossing the road

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 4 October, 2011 14:38

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The Atlantic reports on this American study:

…music players had no impact on a pedestrian’s ability to cross the street. Women showed no difference in cautionary behavior whether or not they were listening to music, while men actually paid more attention to traffic with ear phones in than without any distraction.

So that’s one more reason to plug those headphones into your ears, crank up the volume like morphine, blot out your fellow ants and retreat away from this crumbling desolate world.

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