When I am driving‚ one of my biggest pet peeves is listening to someone blow the car horn because someone else is essentially not traveling fast enough. Have you ever been at stop light that turned green‚ and the first car does not move? What makes this situation even worse‚ is when a driver three or four cars back blows their horn. Why does the fourth car back feel entitled to be the hurry-up police? It does not make sense to me‚ that someone not immediately impacted by the delay feels the need
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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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Having explained the wide-reaching impacts of drunk driving‚ I think we can all agree that this is an especially troubling issue for the DFW area. Looking at information published by the CDC‚ driver education is recommended as one of the foremost ways to make a meaningful reduction in drunk driving incidents. There is also data showing that introducing Uber services to an area causes a reduction in DUI arrests. The city of Seattle saw nearly a 10% drop in DUI arrests after Uber began servicing the
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Some states have made it illegal to drive while using a hand held cell phone‚ I disagree with this law. Due to the fact that young adults are easily distracted‚ the increase in accidents‚ and safety of any other person in the car as well. To start off young adults are easily distracted easily. It takes a young person about 4 seconds to read a text message‚ in the time that they read a message. It only takes 1.2 of those seconds for a crash to happen. Plus when its dark out and other drivers
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Experience Essay Approaching texting and driving is an issue that must be tended to. When I first received my license I was very big on texting and driving. Until one phone call changed my viewing on texting and driving. I had just got back from my friends house when he called me and said that our good buddy Tyler Henson had just wrecked his car into a culvert. The autopsy reports showed no sign of alcohol in his system but the causes or the wreck were decided to be speeding and texting while driving
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Codey Ouellette English 101-015 Personal Communication Essay Duffy Texting and Driving More than 1 trillion text messages were sent worldwide last year. Texting while driving has become more common in today’s society than it has ever been. As a community‚ we have been bombarded with new technologies‚ such as iPhone’s‚ cell phones‚ tablets‚ etc. According to the National Safety Council it is estimated that 11 teen deaths happen per day‚ at least 1.6 million car accidents‚ 6‚000 deaths and
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Texting while driving can also increase the likelihood of running over and killing pedestrians‚ a 2009 study by the same team found. That research‚ which involved 21 teens and a driving simulator‚ found that texting while driving or even fiddling with music players while driving increased "lane position deviation" and rapid changes in speedAlthough 71 percent of parents with teenagers aged 12 to 17 years old say they know how to and do text‚ kids still perceive their elders as being out of the texting
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The video begins with the hosts introducing the guest star Danny Preston‚ who is a defensive driving instructor. He claims that there are ways to turn road rage into calm and collected road revenge. The discussion starts by Preston explaining what to do when people are cut off on the road whilst driving. He says to remain calm and then follow the violator home. After obtaining their address‚ one can sneak into their perpetrators house and rearrange things to spook them out. It is much easier to make
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No State Left Behind: Laws Against Distracted Driving In Idaho and as a Nation The majority of the people in the world don’t intentionally put themselves in dangerous situations‚ yet tragedies occur every day. Each year a motorcycle hill climbing competition is held in New Plymouth‚ Idaho called the Big Nasty Hill Climb. On September 19‚ 2009 my sister’s best friend Lacy Fine set out for a day of fun with her cousin Brittani and her cousin’s boyfriend Carlos to watch the hyped up event. She’s never
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pulls out a cell phone while driving and begins texting‚ it is as if they have placed a blind fold over their eyes‚ and are now driving blind. Their eyes focus on nothing but the screen of the device. With the push of every character‚ they become more oblivious to the road‚ signs‚ and other cars. Automatically‚ they are a malignant threat to everyone around them. As more people text and drive‚ it grows to be more of a serious hazard and threat to the roads and those driving. This serious subject doesn’t
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