According to a new survey of 1,200 people conducted by Nationwide Insurance (UK), one third of “Generation Y” admitted they “multitask” whilst driving - that it itself is one scary admission, but check this out - 37% of them said they are texting whilst driving…
Now I don't know if you have ever done this, but I would envision it would take your eyes off the road for several seconds at a time - have you ever tried driving a vehicle blindfolded? No? Well this is pretty much the same thing.
Worse, if you assume this data is accurate, and extrapolate it out, then there have got to be huge amounts of time when lots of the car-driving public are not looking where they are going - as a husband and a dad, that scares the living hell out of me…
[Via: textually.org]
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