text: Cell Phones are extremely distracting whether your doing your homework, watching tv, and especially while operating a motor vehicle. Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field. Hundreds of thousands of injuries occur each year as a result of distracted driving. To stop this problem we have to do more than just bring awareness to the issue, we have to steps legally to protect teen drivers as well as adults.