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OK, anyone with kids probably said the same thing we did after reading the headline, "Duh." We hope LV, a British insurance company, didn't pay much for this study, which says distractions from kids cause even more accidents than mobile phones. They could have asked almost anyone with children what's more distracting and gotten their answer for free.

The study also found that women are more likely to go into "automatic pilot" mode when driving. By that they mean women are more likely to arrive at their destination and have no recollection of their drive. Which is pretty scary,actually, but could explain all those SUVs on the highways drifting from lane to lane with no signals. Either that or all those 'utes have screaming kids in the back seat keeping the drivers from hearing their mobile phone properly.

WhatCar suggests providing games for the kids to play while traveling and taking multiple breaks to let them work off some energy. We say this might be good support for inventing some sort of Plexiglass wall to fit between front and back seats. Kinda like you see on Cops, but without the handcuffs. On the other hand...

[Source: WhatCar]

Study: Kids are the biggest driver distraction originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A recent study by Response Insurance, a national car insurer, says that cell phones aren't the only driver distractions people want banned. Reading, grooming, and even listening to MP3 players or iPods were on the list with significant support.

A few interesting results of the survey is that more Blackberry users favor government legislation banning their use behind the wheel than non-Blackberry users (65 to 58 percent, respectively), and 28 percent of the population says that even hands-free cell phone devices should be banned.

It's no surprise that a whopping 79 percent of people favor banning reading behind the wheel, 72 percent favor banning texting, and 68 percent favor banning grooming, but a surprising number of people are also all for banning eating, smoking and listening to iPods or MP3 players (36, 34 and 28 percent, respectively).

Thanks to Jamie for the tip.

[Source: Response Insurance via Yahoo! Finance]

Legislate me: drivers favor ban on distractions originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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