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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
The human brain can only concentrate on one thing at a time. You might think you can listen to a story and drive at the same time, but what you are actually doing is switching from one to the other. There will be stretches of road that you don't remember driving down, and there will be gaps in the story where your concentration switched to the road.
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Well, I can tell you that in over 35 years of driving, I've only had one moving violation (that was 1984) and every accident I've had in the last 30 years has been someone hitting me.
As I said, I live in traffic. Audiobooks save me from road frustration (not full on road rage). I'm a much calmer driver when I'm listening to an audiobook.
Since listening to the radio or music, talking to other people in the car or listening to audiobooks while driving have not been banned, I think must be enough evidence to show it is not a large detriment to driving (unlike talking on the phone or texting).