high-tech road test measuring just how distracted we get when using those dashboard touch screens in cars. they re in almost all models these days, but are drivers able to use them and stay focused on the road? dasha burns put them to the test. reporter: inside this massive 24-foot dome at the university of iowa, researchers are driving for answers. with giant touch screens now in 99% of new cars, are we losing focus and veering off the road? this right here is a simulator that mimics the forces of driving and allows researchers here to safely study everything from impaired driving to distracted driving. inside sits a car and the dome sits on tracks inside a building the size of a basketball arena. as the subject drives inside, the machine accelerates, brakes, and swerves. mimicking real driving safely. you can go and hop in and then i ll show you the controls real quick. reporter: today i m the test driver. are you ready to
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weigh more. you ve got to pay for food now. i mean, look, when airlines merge, we end up getting less, paying more for the privilege of being slingshot across the country in an aluminum tube. it would be nice to have more competition. a lot of the issues with the airlines have nothing to do with the airlines and has to do with technology. you know, air traffic and air travel would be much more efficient and much better if we had satellite-based technology where airplanes would be able to come in to airports more efficiently, faster. that would at least do something about the delays. as you can tell, this subject drives me absolutely nuts. i could keep going, but somebody stop me. you know what i will say? jonathan is probably one of the few that still dresses up to travel. i mean, gone are the days where you still dress nice to travel. but i want the days of pan am. do you remember that, kids? who? exactly. that was probably back in the 90s. you keep referring back to the 9
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