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A landmark study finds Australian drivers are a distracted bunch, spending almost half their time behind the wheel with their attention divided between the road ahead and other matters.


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By Stergos Kastelloriou

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A landmark study finds Australian drivers are a distracted bunch, spending almost half their time behind the wheel with their attention divided between the road ahead and other matters.


Australian drivers are a distracted bunch, spending almost half their time behind the wheel with their attention divided between the road ahead and other matters.

That is the key finding of a landmark study based on in-car footage captured during thousands of trips by motorists who agreed to participate.

And the researchers are alarmed.

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