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    Cellular Phone Use While Driving: Risks and Benefits Karen S. Lissy‚ M.P.H. Joshua T. Cohen‚ Ph.D. Mary Y. Park‚ M.S. John D. Graham‚ Ph.D. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Harvard School of Public Health Boston‚ Massachusetts Phase 1 Report July 2000 Executive Summary This report assesses the risks and benefits associated with cellular phone use while driving. The interest of policymakers in this issue has been heightened by the recent decisions of selected foreign countries and

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    Cell Phones and Driving: The Road to Death Strayer University Cell Phones and Driving: The Road to Death: The popularity of mobile phones has grown enormously in the past two decades. With the social media applications‚ texting features and ability to make phone calls mobile phones have lead drivers to become more distracted on the road. Drivers talking on the phone and texting behind the wheel is growing at an alarming rate and quickly becoming a deadly problem

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    Should People be allowed to Use Mobile Phone while Driving? These days‚ mobile phone has become almost a basic necessity. We need a mobile phone everywhere for a faster and swifter communication with rest of the world. Unfortunately sometimes‚ because of the misuse of mobile phone especially while driving‚ even the lives of people are at risk. Using cell phones while driving distracts drivers from the road‚ and drivers need to use all their senses‚ including hearing‚ to drive. Since we can’t use

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    Dangers of Cell Phones While Driving In today’s society most of us have become very attached to our cell phones. They have become a very large part of our lives because they simplify communication‚ and they help us with everyday tasks. However‚ when used while driving in a car‚ cell phones can become very dangerous or even deadly by distracting drivers from the road. Using a cell phone while driving can include talking‚ texting‚ or navigating through a smartphone app. In fact‚ using your cellphone

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    Cell Phones and Driving One of the most popular innovations in automotive travel in the past decade has nothing to do with the automobile itself‚ the people who drive them‚ or the roads over which they operate. Rather‚ it is the ability to carry on telephone conversations while driving. A major concern for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) is that drivers are being distracted by cell phone usage and about 85 percent of the nation ’s cell phone subscribers

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    Seira Sanchez Teen Driving Issues Project Cell Phones and Driving Cell Phones and Driving. Cell phones and driving are an inclining issue for this century and causes many teen related car accidents. This is caused when a person uses a mobile device and becomes distracted from paying attention to the road and unfortunate events lay ahead. The probability of this person being in a crash is 4 times higher if conversing‚ and 23 times more likely if sending a text. Statistics have proven that in 2008

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    "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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    2010 Cell Phone Usage While Driving Cell phones have grown in popularity enormously in the last twenty years. Having a cell phone has become a necessity for twelve year olds to senior citizens. Cell phones are the most widely used device of communication for Americans. Not only are cell phones used for talking‚ but also many cell phones have capabilities to do everything that a computer can do. Due to the increasing popularity and ever changing technological developments‚ cell phone usage

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    to Use a Cell Phone While Driving Chaveli Lopez Keiser University Abstract Driving is one of the skills that require full attention to control the vehicle and respond to the events happening on the road. Use a cell phone while driving involves visual‚ manual and mental distractions (NHTSA‚ 2005). Several studies have found that young people are more likely to use cell phone than older people. Young drivers are almost five times more likely than older drivers to report phone use while

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    ------------------------------------------------- Using a Cell Phone While Driving: It Can Wait In recent years‚ a new and extremely dangerous epidemic has plagued our roads. The use of cell phones while operating vehicles is an ongoing controversy that is resulting in more and more deaths each year. Consequently‚ we are now dealing with much more than the occasional switch of a radio station‚ or a casual conversation with a passenger; we are faced with constant preoccupation while driving. Talking/texting while in the car is an extreme

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