# Multi-tasking while driving **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-tasking-while-driving/605763 "2011-12-10T20:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-tasking-while-driving/605763/21 "2011-12-12T00:37:51Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Unless I have to turn around and smack the kids upside the head for mouthing off, then I use my butt to steer and I hope to god one of the kids will yell if I have to hit the brakes. My Mom was a Court Reporter. Back in the late 60s she heard a tragic but interesting wrongful death lawsuit. The scenario was that a person was using a payphone in a curbside phone booth at a corner gas station. A woman in a passing station wagon reached back to swat the unbelted kids in the back seat. She was steering with her knee as she did so, and inadvertantly swerved & drove through the phonebooth at ~35 mph, killing the caller from behind. One of the kids was pretty badly injured in the ensuing crash. The old days were more dangerous than we think. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-tasking-while-driving/605763/22 "2011-12-12T00:48:17Z")
A sip of a drink once in a while. Radio controls on the steering wheel. I will talk to a passenger without looking at them but when I need to concentrate I stop responding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-tasking-while-driving/605763.md?page=1)