The goal is to do #1 so well that it causes a form of paralysis (deer in the headlights) so that #2 doesn't happen.
I always wondered why my wife never said a word when I drove a sports car years ago, but when I bought a sedan, the complaining about my driving started ... she told me recently that she she was terrified the whole time, and didn't want to distract me by making any noise.
Great thing about the Pantera is that 1) you can stop the fiddling with controls by just saying that they don't work right now, you need time to work on them (probably true); and 2) when driving, it's so loud you can't hear anything but the engine pounding next to your ear!
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