they can -- driving is such a habit that it should not take those frontal lobes. isn't that one kind of assumption? >> yeah. >> and you are saying when we are tired or face that situation where we need to slam on the brakes the brain isn't able to react as quickly as dwi we want. >> driving deaths are an epidemic we have not solved. this isn't a situation where people are being overtly negligent like drinking into a coma. these are people driving to destinations they want to reach with good hearts and not wanting to hurt anyone and 40,000 people a year are dying. for a while the wireless industry brought this up but not anymore. and that is driving fatalities some come down in the united states. that is true. but two other things are true. they have come down far less than other countries and when we spent billions on wider roads, airbags, lots of safety measures in the car, so the public safety advocates will say you will see much better safety improvements so bringing this full circle to your point about not taking it for granted you can drive because tens of th

that driving is so habitual it should not take that frontal lobe is that one assumption?so when we're tired every face a situation to slam on the brakes the brain cannot react as quickly. >> guest: make no mistake driving death is an epidemic. this is not a situation where people of our doing some negligent behavior bridging themselves into a coma or taking a gun to the square but these are good people driving with good hearts hoping not to hurt anybody. i would bring something up statistically one of the issues for a while the wireless industry brought up that driving fatalities have come down. that is true but to other things are also true they come down far less than other countries and at a time when we have spent billions on wider roads comair bags, a safety measures in the cars of the advocates will save you would see much better safety improvements. don't taken for granted you can drive because tens of thousands of people per year die. and let's touch on the brain. >> statistics show that they are the textures and the reggie was just 19 at the time. >> he is so emb

the frontal lobe regulates things like restraint.hey can't moderate their general in behavior and that includes aggressive behavior. i do a lot of work with survivors of domestic violence. all of the women in my group had husbands who had evidence jobs. they were not football players and they were abusing their significant others. so when you say football or maybe look at football in the aggression, is that being used as an excuse? >> i don't think it's being used as an excuse. i think it is legitimate. but i also think that, you know, there are a lot of young men who have played football on the high school level and who have sustained head trauma. and then alcohol also becomes a factor. >> what about entitlement, you have someone who makes a lot of money, they're working very hard for their money. some people say it's just football but you have a short career and you're putting yourself on the line for someone else's entertainment. there is i'dizing that comes along with that. >> i think it could be the stress related to maintaining

driving is so habitual that it shouldn't take those frontal lobes.isn't that one kind of assumption? you are saying when we are tired or when we do face that particularly when they slam on the brakes the brain is able to react. >> guest: make no mistake, and driving deaths are at epidemic that we have not solved. this is not a situation where people are doing some overtly negligent behavior, drinking themselves into a coma, taking a gun into the square. this is good people driving to destinations they want to reach with good hearts and not hoping to hurt anybody and 30 to 40,000 people a year dying. i would bring up something statistically. one of the issues that for a while the wireless industry brought up and they don't anymore is driving fatalities have come down. you know maggie that is true that two other things are also true. they have come down far less than other countries and they have come down at a time when we have spent millions on the wider roads, airbags, sloths of safety measures in the car so what to put safety public advocates are s

alarming rates such that by the end of the year, some of these kids had no function in one of their frontal lobes. we need to take a step back right at this moment and remind ourselves that these are high school students at a public high school. taxpayer-funded public high school. try to imagine what would happen in another context if there was, for instance, a gas leak in the cafeteria that was shown to be causing diminished brain function in high school students. how quickly would that school be shut down, would the media, lawyers, parents, school officials, maybe federal officials descend to shut it down? because it's within the context of football, it's on a field, we sell popcorn, there's clear heeders, it's heroic and in many ways a kind of cohesive event for the community to organize around. but the same thing is happening inside those helmets, and that's what i mean about the medical science catching up with football. when i say that football has a, doesn't have a concussion problem, i think it has a violence problem, and it has a physics and physiology problem. the physics are going to r