Distracted Driving Research Paper

Driving is a very dangerous activity on its own because you are moving a very heavy chunk of metal, going up to 80 MPH, in very close proximity to other cars who are doing the same thing. When you add in technology like phones, radios, and even other people, it makes driving even more dangerous. There are hundreds of car crashes a day. Any way to reduce the risk from distracted driving is a positive one. So I agree with the law it should be illegal to used a hand held phone while driving. If you are talking on the phone, than means that one of your hands is on the wheel, and the other is holding the phone up to your ear. A driver with only one hand of the wheel has much less control of the car. If the driver needs to turn …show more content…
That would make it even harder to perform a turn since they have to make the maneuver one handed, distracted from other cars or pedestrians. Both distraction and limited wheel movements come together for a dangerous combination, that should be illegal by law. In order to make a phone call it is necessary to dial the number or find the contact that you want to reach. There are many different ways and times that a driver could dial a phone. It could be done by a passenger, when pulled over, or stopped at a red light. In these ways, the dialing is not a danger distracting the driver. As well as when someone else calls you there is no dialing involved. But that does not mean that a large portion of people dialing a phone don't do it by them selves while in a moving vehicle. If a driver is dialing while they are driving, then they are looking down at their phone for a couple seconds when they should be looking at the road. The driving school that I when to, instructed that a driver should not have there eyes off the road for more than 1 second at a time. This is enough time to look back a mirror and check behind before your eyes should go back to being in front. So the act of setting up this phone call maybe dangerous for a percentage of