That's one of the rather scary conclusions from research commissioned by Direct Line insurance in the UK, which also found that on average motorists don't have their eyes on the road for some 18 percent of the time.
The researchers used cameras that monitored eye movements and worked out that about 7 percent of the time the driver is looking at clouds, 3.2 percent checking mirrors, only 2 percent looking at oncoming vehicles.
About 3 percent of the time they watch pedestrians who are neither on nor crossing roads.
