{"id":228030,"date":"2025-12-30T02:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/your-music-playlist-could-influence-your-driving-ability-in-unexpected-ways"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:23:17","slug":"your-music-playlist-could-influence-your-driving-ability-in-unexpected-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/your-music-playlist-could-influence-your-driving-ability-in-unexpected-ways","title":{"rendered":"Your Music Playlist Could Influence Your Driving Ability in Unexpected Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xXEobyUiuRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine \u2013 as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips, pick songs to stay awake, and even turn the volume up when traffic gets stressful.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/news\/drivers-who-listen-to-music-disrupting-the-harmony-on-britains-roads\/\">80 percent of drivers<\/a> listen to music on most trips. And many young drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/music-is-a-must-for-young-drivers\/\">find it difficult<\/a> to concentrate without it.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to think music relaxes us, energises us, or helps us focus when we\u2019re behind the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine \u2013 as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips, pick songs to stay awake, and even turn the volume up when traffic gets stressful. More than 80 percent of drivers listen to music on most trips. And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}