Is Texting and Driving as bad as Drinking and Driving? Amber King Zane State College There are many dangers when both drinking while driving and texting while driving. In this essay the two will be compared and contrasted to find why people do them even with the dangerous consequences. Drivers think they can text while driving and also drink while driving because they think they can get away with it because nothing has affected them in the past while doing it. Michael Austin
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Academic Writing Task Assignment 1 Q2 “drink-driving” Student number: 12016039 Group: A7 Name: Wang Xiaoyu (Tony) At the moment‚ more and more people are killed in the UK each year as a result of drink-driving. So people think the law about drink-driving in UK can’t enough to control people. According to the new about drink-driving that a princess consort who named Diana was killed in accident. This is because of her driver who is named Paul fast driving after drinking. The purpose of this essay
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Impaired Driving The technological advances in self-driving car systems will likely promote reductions of impaired driving and overall accidents. The idea of driverless car may seem to be in the distant future‚ but autonomous technology is in fact improving and some of these features are already apparent in some current vehicles we see on the road today. This kind of technology has the power to no only improve fuel economy‚ reduce parking needs‚ add mobility to those who are unable to drive
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In the state of Pennsylvania you can obtain a driver’s license at 16 years of age. There are a lot of disadvantages for teens driving at that age. Statistics and research show that their brains aren’t fully develop‚ they don’t have enough hours or time driving under the different weather conditions‚ they are more prone to having accidents‚ and their insurance rates are high. You would think teenagers would be the world’s best drivers. Their muscles are supple and their reflexes are quick. Though
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that there are more and more distracted drivers on the road. These drivers may be distracted by their radio‚ an in depth conversation with a passenger‚ children laughing or screaming in the backseat or even reading or sending text messages while driving. All of which can be potentially dangerous to the operator‚ their passengers‚ an unsuspecting pedestrian or other vehicle operators on the road. As a potential victim to an accident caused by distracted drivers‚ I am very concerned as we all should
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while driving because not only are drivers putting themselves in danger but also everyone else around them. Statistics have indicated that over 6‚000 deaths and well over half a million injuries have occurred due to drivers using cell phones in 2011 alone. Drivers sending or receiving test messages take their eyes off of the road for at least five seconds which is enough time to cover an entire football field. One could only imagine the tremendous amount of damage that can be done driving across
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Aggressive Driving Miller‚ Christopher S. 12/16/2007 Engl112 Marie Larcara Aggressive driving is an ongoing problem on our roadways that is completely unnecessary and preventable. There are many causes‚ dangers‚ and solutions. We can stop this growing epidemic before it rages out of control by gaining our composure‚ realizing the problem and implementing corrective action. Everyday we deal with agitated individuals on our roadways. Every time we get behind the wheel of our vehicle
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teens can begin to drive. Many states have raised the age of teens driving because of the many accidents caused. There are many different types of teenagers.Some teens can be very irresponsible. But‚ I believe that states should not take the ability to drive from everyone else. Teenages should be able to drive at 16-years-old because it helps the teen mature‚ it allows a teen to work‚ and it teaches the teen responsibility. Driving at 16-years-old gives one more freedom. One can go wherever they like
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Drunk Drivers Should Lose their License’s Permanently People now a days treat their driving privileges as daily necessities more than as rights. The people who take advantage of their driving privileges by break the law by drinking and driving should lose their licenses permanently. Drunk drivers are irresponsible and people like this don’t deserve the right to drive. There are many ads and messages about it but they proceed to drink and drive anyway. This should result in
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Teenage Drunk Driving "People need to be aware that what happened to me can happen to you. I had never thought about impaired driving as an issue in my youth‚ it wasn’t a debate. Now I know. Life really is about choices." This quote was from Tom Boyle who killed Brian Colgan in a drunk driving accident in 1995. Tom Boyle states that life is about choices. This brings up the issue with Massachusetts wanting to place a "scarlet letter" (mark of shame) on the licenses of convicted drunk drivers
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