This morning lee cowan will connect the dots. The doodle. Even its very name makes it sound frivolous. Scribbles and scrawls sometimes recognizable, sometimes not. They actually have a point. I dont think there is any such thing as mindless doodle because the act of doodling necessarily engages your mind. Like some are exploring the discipline of doodlology. Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood experts say the next big thing in cars is just around the bend. Barry peterson looking down the road. Now under automatic control. Hands off steering. The selfdriving car is picking up speed from the drawing board to the freeway. Can i just let go . The car may soon do all the work. The word drive is the word in the future. Could be obsolete is the driver. That story later on sunday morning. Osgood larry flynt founder and publisher of hustler magazine is one of the more controversial figures in america and in some circles one of the least admired. Is there anything he could possibly say for himself at this point that might change peoples minds one way or the other. We asked Erin Moriarty to find out. You think you know all you want to know about larry flynt. Hes been barring it all in hustler magazine. Thats what we thought, too. People who dont know me they think im this guy in the basement grinding out pornography every day they dont realize that i come to work like everybody else. Ahead on sunday morning. The unexpected side of the infamous larry flynt. Osgood the road home has been emotional one for rose an cash. Singing is in her blood and in her heart, too. Anthony mason will tell us her story. When roseann cash returned to her fathers home recently. This would have been my dads bedroom. Sparked a soulsearching journey across this house for johnny cashs daughter. We arrived where we started and we know it for the first time. Thats kind of what happened to me. Ahead on sunday morning, roseann cash takes the long way home. Osgood mo rocca looks sible to Sherlock Holmes. And bill geist with an unlikely restaurant critic. First, headlines of this sunday morning the 19th of january, 2014. Gunman armed with machetes killed at least 22 people in Central African republic. Three are children. Happened friday in remote part of the country. The victims were muslims fleeing sectarian violence. The taliban says it was behind friday nights attack on a popular restaurant in cab that you left at least 21 people dead. Three americans were killed, the restaurant was populated with foreigners in afghanistans capital. Unionized postal Worker Services are expected to protest to open dozens of Postal Centers in staples. Will be staffed by nonunion staples workers. At the Screen Actors Guild awards in los angeles last night American Hustle won award for outstanding cast. The former nba star just returned from a controversial trip to north korea where he organized an exhibition game for dictator kim jung li. 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Just how many when we let our minds drift find that our pencils drift right along with us. The doodler the canvas can be anywhere. Napkins, margin, soon to be discarded envelopes. Yet for all its ubiquity seems to be artistic equivalent of rodney dangerfield. It just gets no respect. Even the Oxford English dictionary reduces the doodle to a drawing made absent mindedly. Boy does that upset doodler sonny brown. You dont like the definition of doodle. I dont. Im not pleased with the definition. That is correct. Whats wrong with the definition . Its not an accurate representation of what is happening for a doodler. This is basically what your notepad looks like the drawings and arrows. Yes. Shes convinced that doodling isnt a mindless activity but instead engages the mind in a way that helps us think. So much so shes written a manifesto of sorts called the doodle revolution. That lays out her case. I want to flip the entire conversation to, lets acknowledge this as a valuable tool and as a valuable technique what then can we do with it. For her drawing what she calls info doodles can help in problem solving and aid in memory retention by creating a visual language that she insists more powerful than most people know. Ive seen people tackling serious challenges and they inevitably go straight to the white board or straight to the wall and start mapping it to have a more effective conversation. And then you have that visual explanation for people to understand whats really happening. Her austinbased consultant fb, inc. Now offers doodling workshops. Media companies are starting to catch on. But the doodle she says still has doubters. There are skeptics everywhere. I love them. What do they say . They say all the usual stuff. They say, waste of time, mindless scratching. They say everything that you would expect them to say when you misunderstand and you underestimate something. Andrew stopped underestimating the power of the doodle after he realized hed been doing it most of his professional life. For me it was definitely something more. I think it was rather important. Over career that spanned three decades in asset management, he amassed oodles of doodles drawing that he was leading all over the world. This was a meeting with a bunch of Senior Bank Executives to talk about budget issues. The longer the meetings the more detailed the doodles. What do you think you were doing, just bored . No. I think it was actually a way of staying engaged in the meeting instead of checking out. What happens in your brain do you think . I suspect what it does it occupies me from thinking about other stuff. That notion that doodles may open the door to better concentration has been getting the attention of researchers of late. In a study published in the journal applied cog any sieve psychology in 2009 researcher played a tedious voice mail to a group of volunteers, some were asked to doodle while others simply listened to the message. Turns out that doodlers remembered 29 more details than the nondoodling group. Doodling has been grossly understudied one of the most neglected daytoday activities. Jessie teaches philosophy of the mind at the City University of new york. He has blue hair is as much a trademark as his obsession with doodling heads. Everyone of them is on some sheet, great environmental message here. Hes drawn thousands of them all while he was supposed to be paying attention to something else. Every single picture you see here was drawn during an academic lecture. Hes so convinced that doodling helped him remember those lectures better he encourages it in his own classroom. You want kids to be doodling while youre lecturing . Absolutely. You really do . Absolutely. He think we should train people to doodle. The prone is estimate p simple. Its not just that distraction, it may actually keep us from day dreaming and zoning out altogether. Think about mindless drawing as a way to take all those things that distract you, all those subjects that you limit on and opening the space where information can get in. Doodling just keeps you just enough doodling. What do you think makes a doodler in somebody who just dull people dont doodle. Perspective a little closer to home we turned to our own artist in residence. This one is truly dont ask me what the hell that means. Says he does between five and ten doodles daily. His desk is covered with them. From the obscure to the familiar. What im fascinated by are the water towers on top of buildings. They seem to give the city a real personality. Drawings by the unconscious mind in a certain way. Its rare that the hand takes over. Does it serve some kind of purpose for you . Its very satisfying, obviously. I mean it was perhaps thats why so many u. S. President s doodle. John f. Kennedy often doodled. Ronald reagan drew cowboys. Former secretary of state, hillary clinton, was caught doodling during a u. N. Security council meeting. Mark twain both were habitual doodlers. When doodles were black and white proof that usually embarrassed artist wasnt really paying attention. While everyone agrees it warrants more study, it just may turn out that doodling is a window to clarity. Doodles define us, right . Tells us who we are. Or who were not. Osgood just ahead. One Million Dollars. Million dollar man. Isnt it time you discovered the sleep number bed . The only bed clinically proven to relieve back pain and improve sleep quality. And right now, for five days only, save 300 to 800 on our newest innovations. Plus special financing until january 2017 on select sleep number beds. Ends monday only at a sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just 699. 99. Sleep number. 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This year volvo will have its self drive car on swedish roads. Google is among companies with one in the u. S. Theyre all racing to have a fully Autonomous Car for sale by the end of the decade. An automobile revolution with one overriding goal. Safety. If your ultimate goal is zero fatality you have to have the cars being able to manage themselves. The final goal of autonomous should be zero. That requires sensors on the car, cameras that look wore ward and behind, radar and sonar and infrared to sense objects all around and the software to react. You actually studied fish. Yes, we did. Why . Primarily with their movements and way theyre able to get huge amounts huge quantities through small areas and again with their Sensory Perception to go the right way and not hit one another we needed to duplicate those same kind of systems which is what our lasers and radars are doing. Like gauging movements of other cars merging in to traffic. Or spotting an absentminded pedestrian at a crosswalk. In fact the revolution is already an evolution with some self drive technology now in use like the car that parallel parks itself. Or sees a child behind the car and hits the brakes faster than a human may react. Once we get on to the highway ill activate this. Why . Steering assist. A Senior Engineer with mercedes benz, took us for a spin in the new s class mercedes with technology now available in 2014 models. It was mercedes that first pop pew rised technology now standard in cars like air bags and antilock brakes. The green Steering Wheel here on the instrument lets me know that it can detect the lane. When this cars sensors identify a drift across a lane, the staring wheel warns the driver with a slight movement. The car can spot trouble well before a distracted driver, say goodbye to rear end collisions. Were showing down but the car is doing that. The car is doing that. I didnt touch the brake pedal at all. This car can react a lot faster than you will in an emergency. Thats right. Scanning the distance between the vehicle in front of me and my own vehicle, the vehicle does that very efficiently. The motors of 1960 finds this safe. Its been a long time coming. General motors display at the 1939 worlds fair fuel lines two miles long to see selfdriving cars. Safe distance between cars is maintained by automatic radio control. By 1956 the dream was updated youre now under automatic control. Hands off steering. And the dreamers of that year saw it happening by, 1976. When you feel comfortable you can engage it. Im a little nervous about that. General motors at the proofing ground, jeremy let us take gms real Autonomous Car for a spin. Im driving along, ive taken my hands off the Steering Wheel, what is the car seeing and sensing that lets it do this . The car has a camera that is looking at the lane to see on the left and right its supposed to stay in the lane. Its going to follow those. It isnt foolproof. The hitech system just like a driver can be blinded by something as common as the sun reflecting off a rainslick highway obscuring the lane markers. When that happens the seat vibrates warning the driver to take back control. And lets put jeremy in the skeptic column, a lot more technology needed and years of testing before a selfdriving car hits a show room near you. A car that can operate on the freeway in reasonable weather, not covered with snow is one that can be done by that still required its still need the driver to Pay Attention and intervene in some s