transportation secretary lahood responded to this study calling it misleading. trace, 15 cats from los angeles. cell phones; are they as dangerous? if i am texting i am distracted. i know i am. reporter: you are. the institutes which is a group that refused insurance claims and they say no, and they took the numbers from the national transportation highway safety board and put them on the screen and here is what they came away with: they say distracting driving last year, 5,474 lost their lives and 995 of those involved cell phones. you see the injuries. so, their premise is, look at the cell phones, and that is 82 percent that do not involve cell phones. that, in fact, what we are doing is focusing so much on cell phones that we are not focusing on what you just said. that is, the person painting
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that also? we ll be doing that also. reporter: thanks for joining us, mike. busy days and weeks, and the owner of this dealership is dennis lazan, i have to ask you first and foremost, i want to talk to you about the brand new nhtsa announcement. they re looking in to starting an investigation now into the prius and possible problems with the brakes. what do you make of this on top of everything else? first of all, i don t have all the technical information on it. i haven t been given it. it s not a recall at this point, but i believe they re checking in to a computer glitch. it is less than a second, after you hit the brake or something like that, but i m not really that technical on that. i don t have that information. reporter: what do you think about having to deal with that now on top of everything else? might as well you know, it s every day, something different. every manufacturer has something probably on a daily basis that goes wrong with some of their products.