Which item does the manual list as a common driving distraction?
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A.
Checking your speedometer often.
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B.
Looking at children in the vehicle. Correct
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C.
Adjusting the mirrors while moving.
The answer is "Looking at children in the vehicle."
The manual names "looking at a phone, navigation system, children, and pets" among common distractions, so children in the vehicle is one of the listed examples. Option C is the trap; drivers trained to set their mirrors before pulling away extend that habit to any mirror action and expect it on the distraction list, when the examples the manual actually names are the phone or screen, kids, pets, music, and grooming.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Checking your speedometer often.
Checking your speedometer is not one of the examples the manual names; watching your gauges is a required part of monitoring vehicle operation. This answer follows the 'eyes on the road' rule to its extreme, treating even a required instrument check as belonging on the manual's distraction examples.
C. Adjusting the mirrors while moving.
Adjusting your mirrors is not one of the examples the manual names among common distractions. This answer carries the pre-drive habit of setting mirrors before rolling into an assumption that any mirror adjustment must show up on the manual's distraction examples.
This question tests your knowledge of Distracted Driving in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "Do Not Drive Distracted," p.70..
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