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Drive Safe asks you to do two things at once for sixty seconds: steer between three lanes to dodge oncoming traffic, and answer arithmetic questions appearing below the road. Neither task is hard alone. Doing both is the point — it is a divided-attention test built to show you exactly how much each task costs the other.
Press Start — the car begins moving and the clock runs.
Steer left and right between the three lanes to avoid traffic.
Answer the maths questions appearing below the road.
Crashes and wrong answers both cost you.
Sixty seconds; your score combines distance driven with questions answered.
Divided attention and task switching. The honest framing is that humans do not truly do two attention-demanding things at once — we switch, and the switch has a cost. This game measures the size of your switching cost directly.
Drive in the middle lane by default. It halves the distance of any emergency move.
Answer maths questions in the gaps, not while a car is closing. Sequencing beats genuine parallelism.
Do not try to read the next question while steering. Glancing down mid-manoeuvre is how most crashes happen.
If you are about to crash, abandon the maths. One crash costs more than one skipped sum.
For two tasks that both need attention, essentially no — we alternate rapidly. What improves with practice is the speed of the switch and, eventually, making one task automatic enough to need no attention.
Because the arithmetic is the task you are willing to drop. That prioritisation is automatic and it is what the game exposes.
It illustrates why phone use while driving is dangerous. It is not a driving assessment and should not be read as one.
Drive on rhythm rather than on reaction, which frees attention for the sums. That is the strategy strong scores use.