Ever wonder how many distracted drivers you're sharing the road with?

Everyone knows, vaguely, that distracted driving is a problem, but despite death and injury statistics meeting and surpassing those of drunk driving, many people still think that it's something they can get away with if they're "good at it." To clarify, you can't be "good at" distracted driving, but you will probably be lucky a few times if you attempt it. But like drunk driving, even if you get away with it once, twice, or twenty times, eventually your luck is going to run out. The more times you attempt it, and the more people on the road engaging in it, the more people will be hurt and killed by this behavior that is still somehow seen as socially acceptable. 

So, just how common is distracted driving? The agency SR22 filmed an overpass in Florida and analyzed the footage, literally highlighting those drivers doing something other than driving. The results of this small survey show that 8% of drivers - nearly 1 in 10 - are distracted:

In 2013, more than 3,100 people were killed as the result of distracted drivers, and another 424,000 were injured. And while everyone promises that they’re not part of the problem — that they would never text and drive — that may not be all that true. So to take a closer look at just what driving in the 21st century looks like, SR22 filmed 20 minutes of rush-hour traffic on South Florida’s I-95. Of the 2,151 cars they filmed, 185 were driven by individuals who were either on the phone, eating, “or doing something else that diverted their attention from the road.” That’s 8 percent, and a potentially alarming statistic. 

Watch the video for yourself, and if you think it's not that bad, imagine if every highlighted vehicle contained a drunk driver.