inattentive

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In Europe, for example, where Musk has said he hopes to win approval for FSD as soon as February, carmakers are mandated to have effective strategies to warn inattentive drivers.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

Jurors ultimately decided that Penny was not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, which “involves causing someone's death by acting in a manner that was reckless, inattentive, or careless.”

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of mental health in the U.S. population, making generations of Americans more depressed, anxious and inattentive or hyperactive.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

Toward the end of freshman year, we all started hanging out at the house of a friend who had a big basement and inattentive parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Then, inattentive as ever, she asked him if he knew how to wiggle his ears.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende