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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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Driving Aids create Distracted Drivers

I think these new features, the driving and safety aids, are creating complacent drivers.

And who ever checks if the sensor is clean and functioning, before climbing behind the wheel and relying on it?

Check the sensors!

Favourite line:

I worry these new features are masking just how dangerous an activity driving really is. And when the element of danger is removed, so are the consequences of a mistake.

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