
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that advise automakers to disable certain in-vehicle electronic features. The DOT wants to crack down on any action that requires drivers to give the task more than a two-second single glance, or 20 seconds of total glance time, to control. The suggestions encouraged automakers to make sure that certain in-vehicle electronics wouldn't be used while the vehicle was in motion. Many actions that would force a driver to visually and manually enter data would be disabled under the proposed guidelines.
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