"Studies show that driving while talking on a cell phone is extremely dangerous and puts drivers at a four times greater risk of a crash‚" said Janet Froetscher‚ president and CEO of the NSC. "Driving drunk is also dangerous and against the law. When our friends have been drinking‚ we take the car keys away. It’s time to take the cell phone away." A study from the Harvard Center of Risk Analysis estimates that cell phone use while driving contributes to 6 percent of crashes‚ which equates to 636
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how they had the potential for uses in extortion and fraud. Between 2014 to 2015‚ Georgia authorities had seized over 23‚500 cellphones. Many of the phones found their way into the prison system through employees at the prison. More than 51 were arrested for their crimes. Prosecutors of criminal law discovered that inmates has used the smuggled phones for acquiring Internet access and collecting information
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when it comes to driving. Things are different now than it was ten years go. Young people are most likely to get distracted than older people while driving. Driving down high way I see people either texting‚ eating‚ or playing. One way people get distracted while driving is texting. For the last ten years texting while driving has cause death of many young people. This is why I try to keep my phone in my cup holder because I do not want to be the next victim of texting driving. Young people will
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the ultimate consequence of texting while driving. It has not only started to take over our country over the past couple of years‚ but also has become the most common leading factor for car accidents around the world. In fact‚ over three thousand people are killed every single day due to texting while driving‚ leaving many injured. It seems as if this problem is only getting worse as the years pass by. The majority of the people think that texting while driving is a really simple task to complete
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Teen Driving Issues Project (Choose one topic: Drinking and Driving‚ Road Rage‚ Teen Crashes or Cell Phones and Driving) Please use complete sentences and complete in paragraph form for each questions. YOUR NAME: Cythia Powell 1. Topic: __Cell Phones and Driving__ (20 points-list your topic here) Part 1 - Identify the Issue (Be sure to use complete sentences‚ most answers should be at least a paragraph.) -Operating a cell phone and driving is as dangerous as drunk driving. 16% of all drivers
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Cell-Phone Induced Driver Distraction In the study conducted by David L. Strayer and Frank A. Drews the researchers examined the effects of operating hands free devices mainly cell phones for this study‚ while performing driving tasks in order to determine just how much the devices can divert or distract the operator of the vehicle during their use. The authors conducted four different experimental studies with various scenarios as a means to pinpoint and observe whether an individual can
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on my argument paper is on distractions while driving. I know that there are a lot of different distractions while we drive. But the one thing that bothers me is the law that there is on texting while driving. I know that it’s not good to text while you drive because how can you be paying attention to the road if you’re looking down. And I also know that all teens like to do now is text rather than talk on the phone. I personally would rather talk on the phone because it seems a little more complicated
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texting while driving and influence them to not do it. Thesis: Texting while driving has become so common in today’s society‚ that the danger of it is overlooked. I. Introduction A. Gain Audience’s Attention – Death‚ text message ignored B. Motivate Audience to Listen – Survey 90% C. Thesis – So common‚ danger is overlooked D. Preview – Exam effects‚ influenced to stop [Transition: The first point that I would like to make today is that…] II. First Main Point – DWT (driving while texting)
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Five Seconds Five seconds may not mean a great deal or seem like significant amount of time to be concern about; however‚ a driver spending just five seconds to read a text message while driving can mean more than what most drivers anticipated. It can mean a person’s life. Sarah Rogers was only 8 years old when driving in a car with her mom. On a four-way stop sign a car crashed into their car hitting the mother’s side at 60mph. James Trolley was the driver who crashed into them and because he decided
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When a cell phone goes off in a classroom or at a concert‚ people are irritated‚ but at least lives are not endangered. When on the road‚ however‚ irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers‚ weaving between lanes‚ for example‚ or nearly running down pedestrians in crosswalks. A number of bills to regulate use of cell phones on the road have been
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