Knowing when to look away and when not to look away is greatly supported by developing a visual hierarchy followed by a visual pattern. What? A collision free driver has to know the most important things to look at while driving and the least important things, therefore creating a hierarchy or list. The most important things on the list are going to be pedestrians, other cars, traffic lights and traffic signs. Inside the car, the collision free driver should be looking down the road, in the mirrors, and glancing at the gauges on the dash. And this is where all distractions like radios, PDAs, cell phones, and pets in the car can play a huge role. While driving, we should be looking in certain areas, down the road or in our mirrors, at a certain time searching for key information from our list but these distractions add to our list. In other words, they not only can make driving more complicated but more dangerous. These distractions add to our list, test our discipline, and disrupt our normal visual search patterns. Matters become even worse when we have to realize that it takes years to develop visual search patterns. So knowing when to look away and when not to is further complicated by the addition of distractions. Staying focused while driving means using discipline to keep our minds, eyes and hands where they are supposed to be.