Preventing Distracted Driving
Over the past decade, distracted driving has increased dramatically with the technological advances of cell phones and cars. Distracted driving is not just using the phone for texting or calling people anymore, apps and having a passenger to talk too is now considered distracted driving. Other forms of distracted driving is eating, drinking, changing radio stations, and using the GPS. There are three different terms for distracted driving visual, manual, and cognitive. Visual is when the driver takes their eyes off the road. Manual is when the driver takes their hands off the wheel. Lastly, cognitive is when the driver takes their mind off what they are doing. Distracted driving affects millions of people every year. According to National Conference of State Legislature, “Nearly 303 million people in the United States have cell phones. At any given moment during the
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As said before devices are being made to prevent distracted driving. Many questions are being asked if the devices will work or if people will actually get them installed. Cars will have to be able to withhold the capacity of these devices, no one is going too voluntarily by a new car just to use as device that could possibly not work in the next 5 year. According to Paul Atchley, a psychologist at the University of Kansas who studies compulsive use of texting by drivers said “Awareness wasn’t enough. The lure of the device is too powerful, he said, to be overcome by awareness of the risks” (Hit the Break, NY Times). Most teen and adults do not care about paying a small fine because they were having fun but when does the fun stop? When someone gets killed? Distracted driving needs to be controlled because it’s becoming one of the country’s biggest health concerns. At the end of the day, it all comes down to what a person does with these new ways to prevent a major part of distracted driving from
As said before devices are being made to prevent distracted driving. Many questions are being asked if the devices will work or if people will actually get them installed. Cars will have to be able to withhold the capacity of these devices, no one is going too voluntarily by a new car just to use as device that could possibly not work in the next 5 year. According to Paul Atchley, a psychologist at the University of Kansas who studies compulsive use of texting by drivers said “Awareness wasn’t enough. The lure of the device is too powerful, he said, to be overcome by awareness of the risks” (Hit the Break, NY Times). Most teen and adults do not care about paying a small fine because they were having fun but when does the fun stop? When someone gets killed? Distracted driving needs to be controlled because it’s becoming one of the country’s biggest health concerns. At the end of the day, it all comes down to what a person does with these new ways to prevent a major part of distracted driving from