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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Living and dying in 3/4 time
Fast music linked to car crashes
Speed kills. But it is not only the speed at which people drive that is the problem: the speed of the music they are listening to also has a hand in their fate. An Israeli researcher says drivers who listen to fast music in their cars may have more than twice as many accidents as those listening to slower tracks.
With the car now the place where people most often listen to music, the research is worrying. While previous studies have shown a link between loud music and dangerous driving, Warren Brodsky at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, wondered if tempo had any effect on driver behaviour.
To find out, he put a group of 28 students through their paces on a driving simulator. Each student drove round the virtual streets of Chicago while listening to different pieces of music, or none at all. The students had an average of seven years' driving experience.
Brodsky chose music with a variety of styles, ranging from laid-back George Benson ballads to the ultra-fast numbers beloved of clubbers. The tempo ranged from a slow 60 beats per minute up to a fast and furious 120 beats per minute or more. All the music was played relatively loudly to maximise its effect
So what was Laura Bush listening to when she had her accident? The top ten songs of 1963:
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Candy Girl - The 4 Seasons
Busted - Ray Charles
Judy's Turn to Cry - Lesley Gore
Drip Drop - Dion
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles
On Broadway - The Drifters
Midnight Mary - Joey Powers
I'm guessing Judy's Turn To Cry, although the sentimental favorite is Mickey's Monkey, for obvious reasons.
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