I Texted while Driving

State Farm hosted a distracted-driving event – get behind the wheel of an Acura ILX and go around an autocross track while they bark instructions at you from a radio. I was alarmingly good at it.

Jokes aside, distracted driving is the new drinking & driving – don’t do it, me first.

It’s not the manual dexterity that makes distracted driving dangerous, it’s the required mind shift.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

A car moving at 60 km/h will travel 16 meters – or 5 car lengths – in one second. Can you read a text in one second? No chance. 

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About the Acura ILX – here

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In Utah with Jeep and going Offline

Hi hi from Utah. It’s really red here, and looks like a cartoon.

Right now I’m in a remote ranch, then tomorrow I’m off on an extreme off-roading adventure where the sky will fill the windshield and wheels can slip and slide. I’m 1/4 Canadian journalists here, lucky eh. Tomorrow night we sleep in a cave?!

I forgot to pack a purse, so at dinner I used that envelope as one.

See? Cartoon.

The bad part is apparently cell signals have a tough time fighting through this landscape, as in, there isn’t one. Can’t phone, can’t text, WiFi is weak, my phone turned into a black box.

And it’s going to get worse on the trials tomorrow, and no chance while camping tomorrow night…

So that’s why I’ll be unreachable until Friday night.

Wish me luck! TTYS