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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 20:36 
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Cannot find it on Drive Safe's site. However, am informed from my sisters that a tiny piece appeared in the Bolton press last Thursday or Friday. By a pool reporter :roll:

I am amazed they do not have on the DriveSafe Site as could be important. :wim nk:

Basically Drive Safe (Manchester Pratnership) conducted some survey and found

my youngest sister's e-mail of a potential denial that speed is the one and only problem wrote:

Music affects driver attitude. The louder and more aggressive the music - the lower the driver concentration


Now I listen to Classic FM and of course some other faves .. mostly Beatles/Stones/Sixties Classics plus some Mozart/Folk etc. I do listen to R2 as it's mostly the stuff I like too. :lol: Nothing raunchy them :lol:

But I have to agree. I will choose music to lull me to sleep with my hot milky drink at night. Music to woo Wildy :lol: Music to revive and uplift me. And so on. Great music does affect us. I will not disgagree with their findings and would suggest something which you know focuses you on a drive. :wink:

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I wonder if the Scamera vans drive around to the tune of the Imperial March from Star Wars :twisted:

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I thought a study of students revealed that music helps you study, but it has to be your music.

So if you played heavy rock to a Mozart fan I am sure his concentration would fall.

I like misic that is complex or rock to keep me awake and "in the zone" or faily happy rock with lots of tempo changes to distract me from the fact I am misarably stuck in congestion. The same music on an empty road is too stimulating. It makes my boots heavier :lol:
On a long motorway trip I like a good talk radio show.

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I thought a study of students revealed that music helps you study, but it has to be your music.

So if you played heavy rock to a Mozart fan I am sure his concentration would fall.

I like misic that is complex or rock to keep me awake and "in the zone" or faily happy rock with lots of tempo changes to distract me from the fact I am misarably stuck in congestion. The same music on an empty road is too stimulating. It makes my boots heavier :lol:
On a long motorway trip I like a good talk radio show.


I think music ist personal. You listen to your own tastes. I choose the more melodic or R2 (Euro similar) for the longest drives.

I do not play the things which really stir me. I play the things I enjoy und which I find personally calming to my own mind when I drive.

I admit that Music for Minors/Learn with Mozart are particular favourites for the kittens und selves though. :lol:

The "Music for Minors" series. If you have kids - these are just superb easy listen but still stimulating the concentration tunes. :wink:

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Reviving an old thread here...

90% of the time I'll be playing country & western on the outbound trip and ABBA on the way home.

I do occasionally put some other stuff on, loud dance music is good for B-road barnstorming. Or a bit of soft rock. But I never play hard rock or metal in the car.

I did, once. I'd had Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms" playing. The next album up was Evanescence. When the music changed... so did my driving. My right foot got very heavy.

So when I finally got round to getting an iPod to use in the car I made sure there was no heavy rock or metal on it as it does make me drive faster and more aggressively.

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"I like both kinds of music: Country and Western!"

I agree with you to a point Squirrel, 'aggressive' music has the propensity to weight the right foot, but not to a degree that cannot be overcome by concious good driving practice.


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I am surprised Brake has not jumped onto this one. Demanding a ban on Satan's music music in cars.

We can look forward to seeing music as a contributury factory in accident analysis...you think it won't happen?

BTW Squirrel do you go for the modern (new) country or the traditional stuff? I am not a big country fan but I do like Gretchen Wilson, Dixie Chicks, Dierks Bentley and Big & Rich but you cannot get that stuff from stores in the UK.

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Robin: Hey, that's my expression!

Gizmo: Tend to like mostly the "neo-traditionalist" stuff, Alan Jackson, Dixie Chicks older stuff, George Strait, Shania Twain's first couple of albums (when she was still country), Dwight Yoakam... also like some older stuff, Buck Owens etc. Just got hold of The Derailers' "Under The Influence Of Buck"... which is brilliant. Both musically and for driving to.

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Ah yes! More "junk science"! First we had "speed kills", now we have "rock kills"! :roll: It's not that I'm denying the effect, but it ain't just heavy rock that does it. I defy anyone with half a soul not to experience much the same thing to some of the more powerful classics - a nice bit of Wagner, anyone?!


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RobinXe wrote:
...I agree with you to a point Squirrel, 'aggressive' music has the propensity to weight the right foot, but not to a degree that cannot be overcome by concious good driving practice.

Discussed this very issue with a police driver/instructor some while ago when he commented that the issue of loud and/or 'aggressive' music as a factor in accident causation had been a topic at a forum he was involved with. Our mutual conclusion was roughly as Robin said - that such music(?) could be an adverse influence on an inexperienced or less conscientious driver; however a good driver, aware of their own abilities, would either avoid playing such distracting media or - by their concentration - 'tune it out' (as most of us do with many other potential distractions - such as passenger conversations).

Of course, right or wrong, the conclusion does nothing to resolve the issue where it does affect a driver's behaviour at the wheel!


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Yes, if you ae moved by a piece of music, it is probably best noy to play itwhilst driving. Personally, I tend to stick to Radio 2 or Classic FM, but even they sometimes moving stuff.
I also avoid jazz, becuse I dn't like it, and the out of tune singing annoys me. an annoyed driver is a bad driver.

Og, BTW, I like both heavy rock AND Mozart!

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What's this about loud/agressive music makes you drive worse?

Back in my youth, I fitted a big 12" subwoofer and 6x9s into my Ford Escort and would listen to hardcore rave on it with the result that my much more sensible/boring friend commented that my driving was much smoother and more pleasant when I was using the thing!

Now according to the stereotype (crap Mk4 Escort, youngster, subwoofer, rave music) I should have been maiming schoolchildren left right and centre but I did not, I wonder why, could there be more to it than a mere "music I dislike should be banned from cars" perhaps?

Nowadays, I must be the only person in the country who regularly listens to Radio 1 and Radio 4. Shame both stations are pretty crap during the daytime though. (Moyles: please die)


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