There is just as much distraction by co-drivers and back seat drivers.
I constantly have to remind my wife to let me do the driving so I can keep my eyes on all hazards and traffic, instead of the one she just saw.
Stewart At 01:12 AM 8/7/2009, you wrote:
As a pedestrian in the Washington, D.C. area, I'm in favor of anything that will improve my odds of survival, even by just a few percentage points. If windshield-mounted GPS units and similar devices make it more likely for pedestrians to get mowed down by vehicles, then I think that the windshield-mounted devices should be illegal. I'm aware that this might be less convenient for drivers, who might have to do something radical: plan their route before they get in the car. Once upon a time, this was SOP, and we used primitive devices called "road maps" and "map books" to do it. I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who think that it's a hardship not having a GPS stuck right in their field of vision on the windshield. The fact that people engage in a lot of other risky behavior in cars, with or without computerized components, is no argument in favor of allowing windshield-mounted GPS units. They're a distraction, however slight, and the difference between getting across the street safely and getting turned into something like Prego spaghetti sauce on the hood of a car can be just a fraction of a second. --Constance Warner
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