I’m about to make an admission that might startle some members of my family and even a few friends.

It concerns some telephone technology to which my wife and I were recently introduced. It’s that technology that enables one to receive and make phone calls while driving a motor vehicle, and without having to fumble with a telephone.

My admission is that I’ve used it and have found that it’s easy and actually kind of fun.

We purchased a hybrid car, a Toyota Prius, recently. It has a lot of bells and whistles. It’s a pretty high-tech car. One of the bells — or maybe it’s a whistle — is this program that enables one to connect a cell phone with the car. You call my cell phone and the car radio speaker starts bleating a sound that tells me a call is coming in. I press a button on the steering wheel and start talking to whomever is calling.

I know this is old news to many of you. It’s new to my wife and me.

I’ve made a couple of calls from the car to people I’ve put on “speed dial” on the radio. I hit another button on the steering wheel, hit the speed dial button and it calls the number automatically.

Yes, this too is old news to those who’ve known about this technology all along.

But it is rather cool.

So I’m able to use the phone in the car while not getting busted by Amarillo police officers for talking and driving at the same time.

I’m really not afraid of technology. It’s all just something that requires some adjustment. I’m finding, though, that I am a fairly adaptable creature.

Texting, though, is an entirely different matter.