Massive Touchscreens Increase In-Car Distraction and Safety Risks

Imagine your car's dashboard is like a video game controller with lots of buttons.

Newer cars are getting rid of most of those buttons and putting everything on a big screen, like a tablet.

This looks cool and futuristic.

But it's like trying to play a game on a tablet where you have to keep looking at the screen to find the right button.

It's harder to do things like change the music or turn up the heat without looking away from the road.

This makes driving more dangerous because you aren't watching the road as much.

Sometimes it takes much longer to do simple things on the screen than it did with the old buttons.