Saturday, September 1, 2012

Your tunes are next on distracted driving hit list

Fears that in-car entertainment is next on the distracted driving hit list are not far fetched.  John Kilcarr who blogs over at Fleetowner discovered that insurance wonks in the U.K. have conducted "research" on the impact of music on distracted driving. What's inexplicable is that the music used in their research--Classical, Jazz and the Blues--amounts to a worldwide fan-base of maybe a couple dozen people, tops. Just thinking about why they excluded rock and country music--the stuff you turn up loud--now that distracts me more than a favorite song...