text: A study by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that distracted driving accounts for $129 billion, or 15 percent of the overall societal harm caused by motor vehicle (Anderson). That number implies that a massive amount of resources, productivity, and human life were completely lost at the hands of distracted driving; this number doesn't even account for what goes unreported. Society as a whole is damaged by distracted driving because of the immense loss of lives and productivity associated with it.