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That does make a significant difference. I'm intellectually aware that much of the world has little if anything but the equivalent of city driving, but I don't internalize it because so much of my driving is on open roads. If I'm going into, say, Boston (for non-Americans, notorious for having drivers both insane and incompetent) I wouldn't even have the radio on -- a place like that, you don't have to worry about external stimuli, they're all around you and trying to kill you (actually, most of the time, I'd take the metro). But you go 20 miles from Boston and you're on a lightly-populated limited-access highway, and especially if you're doing it at night, "droning mode" can easily set in. And that's in one of the most populated places in the country. If you're in, say, Texas at night, you can go 20 minutes without even seeing another set of headlights.
Still, there is no place, and no time, in which it's appropriate to read a freaking Kindle.
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