Texting while driving

In today’s society, drivers are getting worse and worse at everyday careless driving. The people of the world as a whole, are all to blame for not being more aware while driving and being behind the wheel. With technology booming, cellphones are coming into major play for being a major contributor to bad driving. Texting while driving is becoming a really big issue in the common day. [Despite people wanting to do it, especially while stuck in traffic, Texting while driving should be against the law to prevent fewer deaths, and to keep the roads safer.] States should heavy fines and remove the offender’s driver’s license for repeated offenses. Drivers on the road have to worry more and more each day on the road from careless drivers. Texting is now one of the biggest causes of wrecks, almost as worse as drinking and driving.
The growing number of technology today is such a big part in people’s lives. Everyday, technology is coming forth with newer and bigger ideas. The people in modern day can’t live without the things like cell phones and tablets, things they used to be able to live without. Cellphones are a number one contestant for the average person’s everyday needs. Catching up on the latest social networking, e-mailing, or returning a message to a friend is part of everyone’s daily routine. These are all part of the world’s daily rituals. With these on a person’s mind all day long, people tend to look more into what’s going on with their phones rather than what’s on the road ahead of them. People, of all kinds, are to blame for careless driving due to one being too self-absorbed with their cellphone. Brian Penning’s of professional Safety goes into details over what distractive driving really is. He says, “Distracted driving is a factor in 90% of collisions says penning’s and most of those involve a cellphone.” (p.16) “Texting is twice as dangerous as talking on the phone or to passengers while driving.” (Penning’s p.16)
Multitasking is constantly happening while driving behind the wheel. 78% of driving incidents happen due to inattention to the road. (p.16) Driving it self needs a drivers full attention; using hands on the steering wheel, feeling the movement of a car and using the pedals to stop and go. Driver’s constantly is one going to need their full attention on traffic just to be a safe driver. When a person adds texting with a mobile device, they lose their concern with what is actually the important task at hand. Inattentive observation is something where people are merely looking at the road but aren’t actually observing what’s going on. Deadly Driving Distractions: Texting, Cell Phones, and Other Killers on an educational film gives cold hard facts about what is really happening on the streets. They said, “Distracted driving is that texting while driving is on the same level of driving while under the influence of alcohol.” (Driving Distractions, films on demand) If texting is being compared as to drinking while driving, then that and, why don’t we do something to stop careless driving along with unneeded death? Hands free calling isn’t the solution to a safer environment. With a hands free device, people are still taking then concentration off the road and focusing on what they think is more important. Texas state laws are working on trying to make the roads a better and safer environment for everyone. In the State of Maine, distracted driving is completely against the law. In the state of Minnesota, there are no laws at all against distracted driving. Some states vary but in the State of Texas, we have banned the following: ban on texting on handheld, or non for regular drivers, ban on texting on handheld or non for bus drivers, and texting and driving while in a school zone (Distraction.Gov). This is a great start to end something that is so easy to not do. Failing to look at these laws and break them will cause major fines and penalties, especially caught multiple times for doing so. (Distraction.Gov)
Texting while driving is such a big issue in today’s society. Drivers of all kind are guilty of having this flaw. Its something everyone should be more aware of and take into consideration while behind the wheel. Statistics don’t lie, and everyone should be more aware of the evidence. Fail to do so could lead into major fines and penalties with the law. Texting and driving is a big working issue that needs to be stopped. Just don’t do it.