EVER-EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY DRIVES US TO DISTRACTION.(PERSPECTIVE)

Byline: ROB MORSE

Maybe it's a good thing evolution is slow and can't keep up with technology. Otherwise humans would be evolving into land octopuses.

We'd be driving our cars using one hand to dial a cell phone, another hand for personal grooming, two hands to fiddle with the global positioning system and the stereo, two hands to type e-mail and two more hands to handle the Whopper, fries and Coke.

We'd still be holding the wheel with our knees.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported Tuesday that 4,000 accidents a year are caused by distracted drivers, and American industry is constantly inventing new sources of …