XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: pmcook@gte.net   
      
   On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 05:55:26 +0000, Patty Winter wrote:   
      
   > Yes, once or twice per drive. Not nearly as frequently as drivers   
   > tend to fiddle with the radio. So there's no need for the defroster   
   > control to be on the steering wheel.   
      
   You missed the point.   
      
   People are exposed to distractions, some of which take their eye   
   off the road, about a billion times a day while driving.   
      
   It's a fact of driving.   
      
   Someone brought up a sub topic that many controls are on the steering   
   wheel, as if *that* realistically lowers the number of eye-off-road   
   distractions.   
      
   It doesn't.   
      
   How many buttons are on a typical steering wheel?   
   Mine has more than a dozen, so, let's just call it twenty for now.   
      
   So, they argue, that that's twenty fewer eye-off-the-road   
   distractions.   
      
   But, any logical person would be forced to ask what percentage   
   of distractions does that steering wheel reduce?   
      
   That is, how many distractions are there that take your eye off the road?   
   (HINT: The answer has quite a few zeros in it.)   
      
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