Concentrate on your driving and not on your sat-nav/PDA/phone

A very practical article in Inside Bay Area about the risks we take on when driving with gadgets galore on our dashboard:

A 2006 study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute determined that nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention — and far and away the leading cause of driver distraction was a wireless device.

We should never underestimate how distracting all these in-car devices can be; the key is to use them as little as possible while driving, i.e. with your sat-nav, set it all up before setting off, avoid using your mobile as much as possible, definitely do not surf the Internet if your gadgets have that capability, and most importantly, do not take your eyes or attention off the road!