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Disconnect on Defining Distracted Driving Parents of teens know that their definitions and interpretations of scenarios can vary vastly. For instance,if you ask your teen to play her music "quietly," you might still find the decibel level hard to take; ask your son to take out the trash "soon" and it might reach the curb tomorrow. A new survey of teen driving habits found that teens may also have different definitions than their parents and experts on what it means to drive safely,especially when it comes to texting and driving. The 2013 Teen Driving Report,a survey of more than 2,500 11th and 12th graders sponsored by Liberty Mutual and SADD,aimed to understand what teens are thinking when they get behind the wheel of a car. The findings show that most teens know the facts and recognize that certain behaviors are distracting and dangerous while driving - for example more than half (62 percent) think texting and driving is very distracting. However,a majority (68 ... Read more »

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