Scott Martin

Remember the good old days when the only things distracting drivers were bad pop songs on the radio and a little spilled coffee in the lap? Now we have in-car DVD players, cell phones, PDAs, navigation units and even worse pop songs on the radio.

It all adds up to trouble for cyclists. Eighty percent of all crashes and 65% of near-crashes involve some type of distraction, according to a study done for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

What can you do to stem this terrible tide? Raise awareness by asking your driving friends to take this quiz :

The U.S. government actually has a website that addresses this issue. What is the URL ?
(a) www.Distraction.gov
(b) www.HangUpAndDriveYouMoron.gov
(c) www.ColnagoStuckInGrill.gov

Which form of personal grooming is acceptable to do while driving ?
(a) Running fingers through hair
(b) Gargling
(c) Trimming fingernails
(d) Trimming toenails
(e) Injecting Botox into forehead

The most alarming distracted-driving behavior is...
(a) texting, because it involves visual, manual and cognitive distractions
(b) using a navigation system, because they're always wrong and steam from ears fogs windshield
(c) eating, because dropped Big Macs lose their deliciousness when covered in floor-mat fuzz

Which films are the least distracting to watch while driving ?
(a) Anything starring Keanu Reeves
(b) Judd Apatow comedies, especially the recent ones
(c) Alvin and the Chipmunks flicks
(d) All of the above

Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by...
(a) 37%
(b) killing what few brain cells you have left from years of cell-phone yakking
(c) "Hey... can't you see I'm on the phone ?"

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