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Drivers 'not always watching road'

MOTORISTS typically have their eyes off the road for a tenth of the time they are driving, a study has shown. For 10% of their journey they are eating, reaching for the phone, texting or engaged in other activities that cause concentration to wander away from what is happening beyond the windscreen. Predictably, teenagers who had recently passed their test were most likely to crash or experience a near-miss as a result of being distracted, according to US researchers.

Win one of six pairs of Polaroid sunglasses

By James Popsys Competitions 30 June 2009 09:30 The summer is here and CAR Online has teamed up with Polaroid sunglasses to give away six pairs of its range-topping shades. Click here to enter our competition. Polaroid was the inventor of polarising lens technology in 1930s, so all the sunglasses we’re giving away feature polarised lenses, which deliver 100% UV protection and block glare, rather than just making things darker.

NLV Quant – née Koenigsegg Quant – at Geneva

The Quant - back at Geneva as the NLV Quant Last week we ran a story on Koenigsegg taking somethig new to Geneva after we’d had a chat with them. But part of that story was on last year’s Koenigsegg Quant, a four-seat electric supercar we saw at Geneva 2009. At the time it was billed as a Koenigsegg Quant (although, as Koenigsegg pointed out to us, it was always a commission project) but now it’s set to return to Geneva 2010 as the NLV Quant.