Keep Your Eyes On The Road, Please

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A new study found all drivers fiddle with their radios or engage in other distracting behavior, even when they're being watched as part of a study on distracted drivers.

Cell phones were not the major distraction, the study found. Only 30 percent of the subjects used a cell phone while their vehicle was moving, compared with 97 percent who leaned over to reach for something and 91 percent who fiddled with radio controls.

The study, released Wednesday by AAA, the auto club, and researchers at the University of North Carolina, tracked 70 drivers from North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

The drivers had miniature cameras placed in their cars for a week, and researchers randomly selected three hours to view their behavior. The first three hours of each tape were eliminated in the hope that drivers would act more naturally later in the week.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/06/national/main566895.shtml

We still drive better than 95% of the world. We have our good points. Our bad points are not knowing the difference between a football ball game and murder in Iraq or watching even 1 second of Kobe on TV. Why fall into that GOP Media Whore trash?

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1. I was almost hit the other day by a girl on a cell phone, eating and...

driving a stick shift car. She couldn't keep her car from weaving between lanes trying to do all this at the same time.

boggles my mind