are just becoming more and more frequent, not less and less. that s right. and every year they re coming out with new devices that can do more for you. but all of those distractions, don t have a place when you re behind the wheel. we want to make sure that people are focused on a driving task. when you split your attention between multiple tasks, you reilly are diverting your attention away from the task at hand. bill: what is that length of time? well, it really depends. looking down, to type a text, or, dial a phone number, you may be looking down for five seconds, or the length of a football field so you re really traveling blind. but it is also having those conversations and that cognitive distraction where your brain is not engaged. we see people talking on the phone their perception narrows. they actually see 50% of what they usually see when they re not talking on the phone. bill: do you find younger people bigger violators than