Shaving in the car

Prager tells us he shaves in the car, because it's so convenient.

Isn't this a rather bad distraction? Maybe he only shaves on the freeway but I don't think that makes it okay. I assume he's smart enough not to look in the rear view mirror to see what's going on. Nonetheless, it's a distraction. The brain focuses on the neck, even while the eyes are supposedly focused on the road. But the eyes are not fully doing their job.

Prager needs to see that study that tracked people's eye movements while driving while distracted. He doesn't understand that the eye movements need to roam across the visual screen, picking up children who are playing beside the street, catching the occasional car approaching the intersection from the side, watching for that green light to go yellow before we get to that intersection, watching for that car just ahead and to the left which might be beginning to change lanes, and so on. The brain that is occupied with any activity in the car, such as smoking and shaving, is less alert to these other things.

Take the two minutes to shave before you leave the house, Prager.

Thank you.