Transportation26 Jul 2005 11:20 pm
Singing while driving or mom is always right
I remember few road trips on which my mother didn’t persistently try to convince us kids to join her in singing “Das Wandern ist des Mueller’s Lust” (which translates into something like “Hiking is the miller’s joy” and was a particularly interesting choice when we were stuck on the Autobahn in 25 kilometer-long vacation traffic jams) or similar folk songs much despised by any child approaching teenage years. Who would have thought that she was doing just the right thing to keep my father wide awake at the wheel? A recent study found that singing apparently keeps drivers more alert. There you have it. Mom is always right.