Oh, dear. As if texting, McDonald’s-munching, DVD-player watching, fiddling with the radio and yelling at the kids weren’t enough to distract drivers, Ford execs announced this week at the Consumer Electronics Show that it plans to roll out a line of cars that can call out motorist’s twitter messages to them as they zip down the street.

Doug VanDagens, Ford’s global director of connected services, defended the service, saying that people are already reading their Twitter feeds while they drive and that this makes things safer by allowing them to keep both hands on the wheel.

“We take what people do – they talk on the phone, they fumble with mp3 players, they look at maps. We take these activities and make them safer,” he said, speaking of the next generation of G3 internet connected cars, which include future technology with voice recognition software that allows drivers to launch their own twitter messages, again, hands-free.

God help us all. Seriously. Just what in the world are people twittering about that could be so blasted important that it’s necessary to have it come to you out loud in the car? I really, really would just like drivers to pay attention to what’s going on in the road and not anything else.

And the notion that doing something “hands-free” in your car is somehow safer is a giant crock of garbage too. It’s the mental processes involved in having a conversation on your cell phone that make it just as dangerous as driving drunk, not just the manual manipulation of a phone.

Here’s a contact form to get in touch with Ford if, like me, you think this is a terrible idea.