I think that's it. Any activity that might require you to take time off the road for more than a glance is risky. I really like air conditioner knobs and radio dials or big buttons. I don't actually have to look at them to change the channel or adjust the air conditioner. Some of these new cars have GPS displays, touch screen air conditioner controls and radio controls- all well and good but no tactile feedback and they require taking your eyes off the road. And the worst offender? Center-mounted speedometers. Whatever happened to all those cool heads up displays we were promised years ago?
I remember reading an "ad" for electronic stability control. I happen to think this feature is a good thing to have in a car, but I digress. OTOH, in the ad they are talking about a mother driving quickly with her baby down a rainy country road, she takes her eyes off the road and one hand to mess with the kid, and at the last minute she has to swerve to avoid hitting a truck- but she's alive thanks to ESC, she didn't skid and hit the tree. Well, the articles fails to mention that maybe if the woman was not fooling with the kid, was not driving too fast for conditions (rain, messing with her child), maybe she wouldn't have needed ESC in the first place.
