No Texting While Driving Do you own a cellphone that you use on a daily basis? If yes‚ then think about where and when you make use of it. At work? At home? While cooking? Any free time that you can get your hands on your phone? What about when you’re DRIVING? Because cell phones have become such a necessity in the world that we live in‚ people cannot go for long periods of time without turning to them to text‚ check Facebook or make a call. This impairs our judgment and we don’t always pay
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Draft 2/20/13 Dangers of Texting and Drunk Driving Have you ever sent a text while driving? Texting while driving has been raising issues in today’s society as 46 percent of teens‚ and more than one in five drivers have admitted to texting while driving (source). This hazardous habit has lead to many studies to expose the dangers of texting while driving‚ and how it compares to drunk driving to all drivers. Texting while driving and drunk driving cause an increase in automobile accidents and
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Unfortunately with texting being so convenient‚ it comes with its negative aspects as well. People feel the pressure to remain in constant contact even behind the wheel. The dependency on such a thing has become a serious and dangerous dilemma. Cell phones have become a part of people’s lives so much. We live in a generation with instant information and gratification that sometimes we become pressured by others to update what we are up too‚ or what we are doing throughout our day. For most part
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Driving a Thin Line I’d be lying if I said I never text while driving. But I recognize the dangers‚ and try to do it as little as possible. However‚ there are still incidents that occur. One day‚ I was driving down Highway 6‚ passing Walmart‚ and received a text from my brother asking what time baseball practice was. I went to reply and took my focus off my driving. This immediately endangered myself‚ anyone else in the car‚ and everyone in the cars around me. While texting‚ I have no ability to
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Driving while using a hand held device is a major topic in todays world because many people do own hand held devices and are addicted to them. Teen and adult drivers don’t know how to put their phones down for twenty minutes to drive to wherever their destination may be. Using a hand held device should be illegal‚ it is dangerous to the driver or other drivers on the road and it can cause accidents or unsafe driving. Hand held devices are unsafe when it comes to driving‚ teens are often stereotyped
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Imagine you are driving down the highway and suddenly a car hits the car in front of you. In that car there was one adult‚ one teenager‚ and toddler‚ and a newborn baby. The car that was hit got flipped over multiple times. No one in the car managed to survive that accident. This all happened because the driver decided to pull out their phone and text a simple “Yes.” Texting and driving is a huge problem in the United States. Many laws have been passed to prevent texting and driving. It also causes
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Bibliography for Texting and Driving In Harris County Texas it is said that one of the most dangerous crimes committed is drunk driving. Unfortunately drunk driving is a big issue hanging over the heads of law enforcement. Harris County is number one in the country for drunken driving fatalities‚ and yet I will make the argument that texting while driving is potentially as dangerous if not more as drunk driving. I believe the reason that this issue is more volatile than drunk driving because everyone is
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- at 55 mph - of driving the length of an entire football field‚ blind… Well I´m sure‚ most of us have texted while driving at least once… Let me tell you‚ that according to the Distraction.gov (official U.S. Goverment website for distracted driving)‚ Texting is the most alarming distraction because it involves manual‚ visual‚ and cognitive distraction simultaneously. If it’s so dangerous‚ why do people do it? Some people still don’t know how dangerous distracted driving is. Others know
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TEXTING WHILE DRIVING In today’s society texting and driving has become an increasingly serious issue. Not only is it now illegal which is a totally different subject itself; but its life threatening to you and many others. Texting takes only just moments‚ but in that moment it could harm a life or even take one for that matter. What are the causes of texting while driving? It could be anything from being careless; to being in a hurry. In today’s time communication is limited‚ quick and short
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With more and more people using cellular phones‚ a new debate has surfaced. Should there be laws against using cell phones while driving? The statistics about distracted driving‚ which includes any type of distraction‚ show that distracted driving causes accidents. According to the United States Department of Transportation‚ 5‚747 people were killed because of driving distractions and approximately 448‚000 were injured in 2009 alone (1) Using a cell phone is just another way that driver are distracted
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