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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