jennifer kuhn is with the at&t corp. and she is apparent capitol hill. demonstrating a new product. what do we see? >> guest: what we have here is our campaign to drive education against the dangers of texting and driving. our goal is to stop texting and driving. no taxes with your life so what we have done in this campaign which we launched in 2009/2010 is we created this on line simulator that we actually bring to high schools and events across the country when we were trying to bring the message home about how difficult and dangerous it is to text and drive. >> host: this young woman is on the simulator? >> guest: she is indeed on the simulator so she is having a virtual reality experience of driving through any city usa and she is having to obey the speed limits, obey the traffic signals, deal with the variables that happened in any driving situation whether it's a car coming out of the other lane or a car or traffic and while she is doing that she is getting texts sent to her and she is being forced to reply to the tax. not force but obviously dealing compelled to reply to them

jennifer kuhn is with the at&t corporation. she's up here on capitol hill demonstrating a new product. ms. kuhn, what are we seeing? >> guest: okay. what we have here is -- [inaudible] campaign which is our campaign to give education against the dangers of texting and driving. no text is worth your life. so what we've done in this campaign which we launched in about 2009, 2010 is we created this online simulator that we actually bring to high schools and events across the country. and we're trying to bring the message home in a very safe environment of how difficult it is to text and drive. >> host: this young woman here is on the simulator? >> guest: she is, indeed. she's on the simulator. so what she's doing is she's have sort of a virtual reality experience of driving through any city, usa, and she's having to obey the speed limit, the traffic signal, deal with the variables that happen in any driving situation whether it's a car coming out of their lane or traffic comes, and while she's in that, she's getting texts sent to

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