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These can detect when drivers are distracted, if you’re hard braking and rapidly accelerating or if you’re often driving late at night — all things which signal to insurance companies that you might be a liability.

Slight variations can be enough to put you off the scent because they distract you for a few moments, which is all it takes to achieve their aim.

“He’s trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the Epstein files and then the economy,” she said.

This included making sure "you don't get distracted when you're cooking" and "take pans off the heat, or turn the heat down, if you need to leave the kitchen".

They were busy, distracted, packing for a trip on Epstein’s plane.