21.   A coarse riff of ugly language spit out from the car radio, breaking through a classic commuter reverie on the ride home from work.

22.   A few days before the election, I was driving somewhere with the car radio on.

23.   A preset is the Internet radio equivalent of a button on a car radio that automatically takes the listener to a preselected station.

24.   A small green screen with icons resembling those of a high-tech car radio rests beneath the monitor.

25.   A sign on the lawn instructs viewers to tune their car radios to a certain frequency.

26.   A. We were driving a car from Boston to Washington on spring break and we heard the news on the car radio.

27.   After urban thieves steal the car radio, humdrum is good, they figure.

28.   Bronfman even predicted a day when a button on a car radio would let users instantly order or download songs they might happen to hear while driving.

29.   But car radios are more powerful, so using conventional radio for continuous weather information seems to make safety sense.

30.   But safety researchers say no reliable data exist that show cell phone usage by motorists to be any more distracting than tuning car radios or drinking coffee.