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they told us voice technology was going to solve in-car distraction they lied I'm Brian Cooley with the top five voice oriented dashboard distractions according to new research by the triple-eight and university of utah we're gonna rank these for you by a scale of relative distraction value and show you how talking to your car keeps your mind on that and less on driving number five climate or radio commands via voice I've always found these kind of ridiculous I mean radio and climate is pretty darn easy without talking to the car in the time it takes you to simply activate voice command you could already change the station or the temp number for destination search via voice even if it's error-free it's real tricky getting the voice command gear to understand every command you say every detail of Street and that happens about once a year that it gets it right remains a complex task number three emails and texts this should be a no-brainer I'm actually surprised they aren't number one a range of scores here is because it varies whether you're composing or listening and whether you have a natural or one of those computerized voices coming out of your car either way composing is always foreground obviously as can be listening when the texture email is infuriated number two is just sheer menu navigation let's face it you can't just talk to your car it ain't that smart on most cars you need to give it the exact stilted command it wants to hear from a strict menu of choices that means you either memorize all those right or glanced at those on-screen prompts that's sort of like getting around a foreign country with nothing but a phrase book and you know how well that goes before I get you to our surprising number one dashboard distraction here's a list of how the same study ranks some of the most popular in-car systems overall the number one voice oriented dashboard distraction is believe it or not Apple Siri being used for almost anything this will surprise some folks because Siri is a natural conversation tool but that open-endedness along with the range of tasks it can control along with the fact that you might end up drifting off into an inane conversation with her it makes it perhaps a bit too much more top 5 lists to wait the car lover go to scenic on cars calm but on top 5