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Old 12-21-2015, 01:20 PM   #81
MrDinkleman
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Success!! Thanks to everyone who assisted! I have the gear indicator working. I typically only look at it when I am on a long boring straight section of road (but not the freeway when I am almost always in 6th) and need to update my mind about what gear I am in...


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Originally Posted by extrashaky View Post
I turn down the stereo, but there's actually research around that to support doing it. Parts of the brain that interpret speech and music are also involved in driving, and having that noise on can be a distraction from the road. It's one of the reasons hands-free units for cell phones don't do anything at all to keep people from driving like morons when they're talking on the phone.
You don't happen to know the link to any of these studies, do you? I'd like something to point to when people (esp. GF) try to tell me I'm weird because I prefer to drive with the stereo, phone, and passengers in the "off" setting...
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