Laws Should Stop Texting While Driving

Five Seconds
Five seconds may not mean a great deal or seem like significant amount of time to be concern about; however, a driver spending just five seconds to read a text message while driving can mean more than what most drivers anticipated. It can mean a person’s life. Sarah Rogers was only 8 years old when driving in a car with her mom. On a four-way stop sign a car crashed into their car hitting the mother’s side at 60mph. James Trolley was the driver who crashed into them and because he decided to text and drive, Sarah will live the rest of her life without the presence of her mother again. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Preuss died of head injuries when she lost control of her car and slammed into the center median. Seventeen-year-old
Besides having education as the solution, some believe that enforcement of laws should ban texting and driving. By doing so, society can wipe this problem right off. Laws will force drivers to stop texting based on the concept of consequences. Laws can strictly remove those who text while driving from the environment in which that driver is causing it to become unsafe unlike education. It’s a great idea for a solution; however, thinking deeper to the truth may convince otherwise. The reason why more laws will not work is because it has not been able to for years now. Some people think this issue is because of lack of laws. That is invalid because there has been laws restricting texting and driving. According to Kristin Marino, 10 states including D.C. prohibit all drivers from using handheld cell phones, 39 states and D.C. prohibit novice drivers from cell phone use, and 39 states and D.C. prohibit all drivers from text messaging. If the laws were truly the answer to this issue then why has it not been able to even cause a hint of improvement over the years? People also think that law will stop drivers from texting based on the concept of consequence. This is also false because in this situation, law is being used as punishment and according to Schacter, Gilbert, and Wegner, authors of Psychology 2nd
That reason why they have feel like they have no reason to be scared about texting is because they are not educated with the truth about texting and driving and that is the problem that is in need of being fixed. The only information they have about texting and driving are the senseless notions developed in their minds as a way to justify the reason to text and drive. With education, they will comprehend the ugly truth about texting and driving and will no longer feel comfortable with the idea of killing themselves or another person. By informing drivers what 5 seconds can do, how multi-tasking in the car with your phone is impossible, how it is worse than driving drunk and the chances of death just from picking up the cell phone alone will eliminate the false misconceptions drivers have on this issue and will deteriorate a drivers confidence to the point in which will compel drivers to have a second thought before texting and driving. However, it is also the decision of the driver to whether or not become selfish and put other drivers’ lives at risk for a message that can wait. If the message is important, then pull over and then take a look. As a society it is important to become aware of this issue and respond to it appropriately. James Trolley thought it was safe to text and drive and