RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now this. If you have a car with a voice command system, you may have had a conversation like this one from the TV show "Modern Family."</s>JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Mitchell Pritchett) CD player, next track.</s>VOICE COMMAND SYSTEM: Say a command.</s>JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Mitchell Pritchett) No. CD player, next track.</s>VOICE COMMAND SYSTEM: Air conditioner on.</s>JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Mitchell Pritchett) Damn it.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: (Laughter) While carmakers would like you to think that voice command keeps you focused on the road, two studies published this morning find that is not exactly true.</s>DAVID STRAYER: Not only is this technology associated with higher levels of workload, but it's also associated with higher levels of frustration.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: David Strayer is a professor at the University of Utah who worked on both studies. He finds voice systems lead to destructive driving.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Strayer says some systems work better than others. The best is Toyota's Entune. The worst is Apple's Siri.</s>SIRI: Sorry, I'm not sure what you said there.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Knock it off, Siri. You're distracting me.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: (Laughter).</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, where were we? Oh, yeah. It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
Carmakers would like you to think that voice-command systems keep you focused on the road. Recent research indicates that voice commands, like Siri, more than likely cause distracted driving.