Teen Driving Project: Texting and Driving Student Name: Suveer Harilal Session Date: Session Time: Hosting teachers: Answer each question in thorough and complete sentences. Part 1 – Knowledge (150 points) 1. Explain what you learned about texting while driving. I have learned that texting while driving can make you get in an accident in a matter of seconds and as well as put other peoples lives at risk including yourself. 2. Can a person safely talk on a cell phone while driving? Justify
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Texting and driving may come off as just a thing that happens and its "no big deal" if we can get anyway with it. Some lives are being taken away by it and we need to take this into consideration. One reply your made to a friend‚ or family member it could leave you dead or someone else. An example of this is Ashley’s story which is a story of a girl would was texting and driving and ended up dead. Something as simple as "yeah" in a text lead to the death of a girl named Ashley in March 2010‚ Ashley’s
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Driving Drunk Everyday people are killed in an instant by the choice of an intoxicated person. Many times the people that are killed are the intoxicated person themselves. As well they put their passangers‚ other people on the road and pedestrians. Whether the person crashes the vehicle our splatters a helpless person into the cement the probability that somebody dies is high. There are many sideffects from drinking and driving. First of all‚ the brain slows down‚ which results in a dangerously
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distracted driving every year (“EndDD”). Many types of distracted driving happen everyday‚ and nearly every driver becomes distracted. Distracted driving happens when the driver is distracted while driver a vehicle. It is dangerous because almost every driver does it every time they are driving and it is very easy to cause fatal accidents while being distracted during driving. Cell phones have greatly impacted distracted driving because texting and driving has become the most common cause of distracted
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Texting and Driving vs. Drunk Driving Over the last century‚ technology has helped society move forward‚ making things faster and easier. Having a vehicle has allowed people to reach a destination faster than they would if they had to ride a bike or even walk. Also the ability to now text using a cell phone speeds up the communication process even more. With all the new technological advances you have to many people taking advantage of it; by texting while they are driving to make business or
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Driving While Intoxicated The role alcohol plays in our society is confusing. Alcohol is medically classified as a depressant drug. It is just as dangerous as any illegal drug‚ yet it’s legal for adults to drink. Automobile accidents involving alcohol are the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 to 24. People who choose to get behind the wheel while intoxicated usually overlook and disregard the negative consequences of their actions‚ and the effects on victims and their
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of cell phones while driving can be very dangerous. It is already illegal in some states‚ and should be in all fifty. The use of cell phones while driving has played a big role in wrecks. If the use of cells phones while driving became illegal‚ a large percentage of wrecks would decrease. If people did not use their phone will driving they would be more focused on what there doing on the roads. Operating a cell phone while driving needs to be illegal in all states because it causes wrecks‚ is distracting
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Texting‚ social media affecting teen sleeping patterns BY ERIC MOORE | AUGUST 19‚ 2011 7:20 AM SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend Teens might not be getting enough sleep and texting and social media might be to blame. Recent research suggests a lack of sleep may be a growing problem because of increases in digital communication among young adults. While the effects of insufficient sleep are evident in high school as short-term problems‚ it’s becoming more apparent that being less attentive in
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ntroduction Driver distraction‚ and its implicit effects on hazard recognition and vehicle control‚ has been a prominent topic on highway safety agendas‚ as well as for the U.S. Congress‚ state legislatures‚ the media‚ and the public at large (Stutts‚ Feaganes‚ Reinfurt‚ Rodgman‚ Hamlett‚ Gish‚ & Staplin‚ 2001). Much of this attention stems from the enormous increase in cellular telephone use by drivers and the prospect of similar growth in other in-vehicle technologies such as vehicle navigation
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Driving While Intoxicated Paper Claudia Ortiz Ms. Turner – GOVT 2302 Driving While Intoxicated Paper As we all know driving while intoxicated (DWI) can be very dangerous for both the sober driver and the intoxicated driver. Some of us‚ if not all of us have seen‚ known‚ and even experienced someone driving while intoxicated. There have been stories about drunk drivers on the news and other types of media that shock society. . Many times‚ the outcome of driving while intoxicated
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