cellular devices while driving is now illegal in some states. This is due to the fact that when drivers behind the wheel of a car their only priority should be to drive. While driving and on a phone at the same time a driver is going to be distracted‚ and when drivers are distracted they are more likely to cause or be involved in an accident. Although it may seem entertaining and fun‚ driving while using a cellular device can lead to major problems. For example‚ driving while on a handheld device
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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 respond to events
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have been passed to prevent the danger of texting and driving. Currently there are 41 states. D.C‚ U.S Virgin Islands‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico ban texting and driving. California has laws to prevent texting while driving. One of the laws state that novice drivers are not allowed to to text while driving. If caught they face a fine up to twenty dollars the first offence and fifty every offence after that. People still text and drive even though they are aware of the laws. It is commonly thought
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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. Texting makes it easy to respond or tell someone something and still keep up with a busy lifestyle. Everyone is always
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phone network. The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS); it has grown to include messages containing image‚ video‚ and sound content (known as MMS messages). The sender of a text message is known as a texter‚ while the service itself has different colloquialisms depending on the region. It may simply be referred to as a text in North America‚ the United Kingdom‚ Australia and the Philippines‚ an SMS in most of mainland Europe‚ and a TMS or SMS in the Middle East
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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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Monica Armas Armas 1 English 115 5 April 2013 Texting While Driving: Worse Than Drinking and Driving I was on the freeway on my way to school when all of a sudden out of nowhere a car pulled into my lane without any signal. I slammed on my brakes because the car almost hit me. The driver never turned to look. I honked my horn‚ but the driver didn’t take into
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drivers are not able to fully concentrate on driving while they are on the phone. Using cellphones while driving should not be allowed because it causes more accidents‚ and because its not safe for adults or kids. Bus drivers should not be able to use their cellphones while they are driving. That puts the kids in harms way‚ and them too. One study says that “13 percent of drivers age 18-20 involved in car wrecks admitted to texting while driving”. Other studies says that “ 77 percent of young
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hurt or even killed as a result of texting while driving. II. The specific purpose of this speech is to inform you of the dangers of texting while driving. Thesis statement: Texting is one of today’s most popular forms of communication and while seemingly innocent‚ the act of texting while driving can also be one the most dangerous and possibly fatal forms of communication. Body: I. A lot of people have the misconception that texting while driving can only put them in danger‚ but
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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 health
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