What behaviors constitute distracted driving?

• A. Texting or talking on a handheld phone, eating, adjusting controls, or anything that takes attention away from driving
• B. Texting only
• C. Listening to music
• D. Wearing sunglasses

Answer: (A)

Distracted driving means anything that takes your attention away from the task of driving, whether it’s eyes, hands, or mind. The best answer captures a broad range of distractions: texting or talking on a handheld phone, eating, adjusting controls, or any activity that diverts attention away from driving. Texting is especially risky because it uses all three types of distraction at once—eyes off the road, hands off the wheel, and thoughts away from the driving task—which greatly slows your reaction time and awareness. Eating or fiddling with the car’s controls similarly pulls your focus away from driving, raising crash risk.

Options like listening to music or wearing sunglasses aren’t distractions in the same sense. Listening to music can be harmless at normal levels as long as it doesn’t take your attention away, and sunglasses simply affect visibility rather than attention. The core idea is that any activity that draws your focus away from driving is considered distracted driving.