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Readers have been asking for more motorcycle stuff, and watching this U.K. highways agency instructional video, particularly in the urban areas with everything going on, I couldn’t help but think back to the cellphone post: With all the stuff going on in this video, all the scanning and anticipation and hazard recognition, do we really want this guy on the mobile with his mate talking about yesterday’s Scunthorpe United result?

(Horn honk to DriveSmart BC)

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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