text: "Sending or receiving a text message causes the driver's eyes to leave the road for an average of 4.6 seconds" ,according to "U.S State and Federal Laws Targeting Distracted Driving ". When driving 55 mph, this is the equivalent of driving the entire length of a football field blind. Driving while being distracted is just as easy as it is to reply to a friend about going out tonight. No one want to be in a hospital pronounced dead to your family. Teens do not realize how unsafe it is to answer their phone for a friend at that moment while driving. Many teens just do not see it at all that they put their lives in harm's way. They also affect other people.