RESULTS STARS OF THE SCREEN

It's a company renowned for its Simply Clever approach that impressed us most

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MEASURING and comparing the 'distraction' potential of competing car touchscreen systems can never be an exact science, because in real life there's always going to be a subjective or inconsistent human factor in the mix: the driver.

Different people have a range of intuitive responses to graphics and menus; they may be more or less exact with their touchscreen inputs or simply require longer thinking pauses while responding to prompts provided by the system.

And of course, some eyes are better than others at identifying smaller icons and letters. That's why we selected a trio of drivers for our test to provide a range of responses, allowing us to generate a series of average times that are broadly representative of the majority of drivers.

Having completed the test, and before calculating the results, we asked our drivers for their off-the-cuff feedback on the systems they'd just driven. Their individual top-10 listings, based only on their 'distracted' driving laps, closely mirrored the calculated results shared here - especially for those cars at the top and bottom of the table.

Individual drivers will, of course, make different demands of their touchscreen systems, but we've provided our average task times for each car to help you to make your own judgements based on the touchscreen functions you find most important. These are the best - and the worst touchscreen systems for distracted driving, based on our exclusive test.

1st Skoda