Essay On Driving Distraction

Years ago when the first car phone was invented, it wasn’t even available for every car. Often times it was businessmen or the upper-class who had these luxuries. Fast forward 30 years, it is not uncommon for multiple cell phones to be in a car at once, along with iPods, laptops, DVD players, an abundance of distractions. The picture shown above shows just how easy, common, and dangerous distractions can be. If you were to just observe people while driving, you would notice a young lady at a stop light applying lipstick, a business man on a very important phone call, a mother attending to her children, someone taking a bite out of a burger as they go about their day. Then if you asked these same people if they felt distracted while they were driving they would probably say no, because that’s how easily and dismissed distractions are while driving. That’s not the scary part; the scary thing is the distance a car can travel in the few seconds when someone takes his or her eyes off the road. There is an old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and this picture speaks volumes. The lighting, the colors, the images, it all comes together to relay the important message of distractions while driving. Initially what catches the eye is the contrast between the brightness of the little girl playing outside during the day and the person inside of a vehicle entertaining a device rather than having both hands on the steering wheel. Stated …show more content…
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