1. What Are The Arguments Against Texting And Driving?

There's reasons why teens decided to use their phone while driving. Teens that observe their parents or friends driving while texting and driving, adapts them to say “if they can do, I can do it too”. Another statistic from “Texting and Driving Safety,” says that “48% of young drivers have seen their parents drive while talking on the phone,” – also, 15% teen drivers have viewed their parents text while driving. Like I said, teens get influenced by their parents, and do as they do. But teens shouldn't follow their footsteps. Teens should know that is dangerous, but no, they tend to do it because they think it's easy and not that dangerous. A percentage of 55 shows that young drivers think it's easy to text and drive, and 77% feel confident that they can safety drive while usage of phone and
driving.
Teens don't think it's a problem but a study shows that teens who text spend exactly 10% of their driving time outside of a lane. But what are the teens arguments to those who tell them that texting and driving is not easy and dangerous? Facts from “Texting and Driving Safety,” – shows us that teens say reading a text is safer than sending one, that holding their phone near the windshield helps for “better visibility,” or they only text at a red light or at a stop sign. These justifications might be somewhat true to them but still using a phone is against the law. Even if these justifications help them text and drive, they're still putting someone's life in risk, and one mistake can cause a whole lot of damage. It takes 5 brutal, stupid, seconds for your minimal amount of time of attention to be taken away when you're texting and driving. Teens need to focus on the road and face restrictions in order to be on the road before killing themselves or some innocent person – or
injuring. However, how do we solve these restrictions for young teen drivers to be on the road? Their are many solutions to stopping texting and driving. A solution like – parents should take away their teens phone when they go out for a drive. But that can be kinda unfair and not helpful because what if the kid is in trouble and doesn't have a phone to make a call to their parents. That's why in my research I came across certain restrictions that should be applied more in today's world for driving safely. Parents give their teens the right to drive after they get their license, so in the article I found from my research, “Texting and driving safely,” shared some three interesting, smart restrictions. First one was a drive cam – it monitors one driving, and provides a “real-time feedback with video.” This can help because teens know they're being watched and know for the fact if they use their phone – their parents will check the video and take away their privilege for driving. A free anti-texting and driving app that shows young teens stories, and the causes of driving while usage of a phone. Basically parents should read this to their children and get straight forward with them. Last restriction they explained was teens and parents can take a pledge that they won't text and drive. This will help teens not get influenced by those parents who decided to text and drive in-front of their children. These rules can be applied to all teens, but it takes parents to step up and let them know how dangerous it is.