The remaining five states legislature’s, should issue a ban on cell phone use while driving, because cell phones can cause inattention blindness while driving, you are putting yourself and others around you in danger, and placing a ban on cell phone use while driving is proven to be effective. Did you know that distracted driving comes in three forms? When you are using your cell phone while driving, you’re doing all three types which are manual, visual, and cognitive. Manual distraction is when you are taking your hands off the wheel for even just a split second (Allman 41). An example of this type of distraction is picking your phone up. Many deadly accidents are caused by someone bending down to simply pick up their phone that fell on
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According to the FCC, in 2012 about 18 percent of phone related car accidents were fatal, 3,328 were killed and 421, 000 were injured (The Dangers of Texting). For instance, a big train accident occurred near Los Angeles, because the conductor was texting back and forth (Saletan 21). He didn’t notice the construction, that alerted anybody of danger ahead, and he ended up taking twenty-five lives and injuring 130 (Saletan 21). Another prime example of this is, a man reached for his ringing phone, and hit head on into traffic (Allman 40). He ended up injuring and hospitalizing himself and three others, and killed an eighty-eight-year-old man (Allman 40). This should be a wakeup call up call for people, when they pick up a phone they are putting others in …show more content…
In California, using a cell phone while driving was banned in 2008 (Allman 76).Years later in 2012, California Office of Traffic Safety had compared the results of accidents that happened before and after the ban (Allman 76). The University of California, Berkeley, proved that about 22 percent of traffic deaths were reduced, and driver deaths related to handheld cell phone use, dropped by 47 percent (Allman 76). In 2009, researchers Keli A. Braitman and Anne T. McCartt, did a survey between states that banned cell phone usage while driving and the states that did not (Allman 76). In the states that did have the ban only 56 percent of the people said they use their cell phone while driving, and in the states that did not have the ban, 69 percent of the people said that they used their cell phone while driving (Allman 76). There are still more studies being done to prove that the bans are effective, for example, in 2012 a professor at the University of Texas A&M, named Cheng Cheng, discovered that drivers texted 60 percent less and talked on the phone 40 percent less in states that had the ban (Allman 76). Laws can be very effective in controlling and reducing bad behaviors such as using a cellular phone while
According to the FCC, in 2012 about 18 percent of phone related car accidents were fatal, 3,328 were killed and 421, 000 were injured (The Dangers of Texting). For instance, a big train accident occurred near Los Angeles, because the conductor was texting back and forth (Saletan 21). He didn’t notice the construction, that alerted anybody of danger ahead, and he ended up taking twenty-five lives and injuring 130 (Saletan 21). Another prime example of this is, a man reached for his ringing phone, and hit head on into traffic (Allman 40). He ended up injuring and hospitalizing himself and three others, and killed an eighty-eight-year-old man (Allman 40). This should be a wakeup call up call for people, when they pick up a phone they are putting others in …show more content…
In California, using a cell phone while driving was banned in 2008 (Allman 76).Years later in 2012, California Office of Traffic Safety had compared the results of accidents that happened before and after the ban (Allman 76). The University of California, Berkeley, proved that about 22 percent of traffic deaths were reduced, and driver deaths related to handheld cell phone use, dropped by 47 percent (Allman 76). In 2009, researchers Keli A. Braitman and Anne T. McCartt, did a survey between states that banned cell phone usage while driving and the states that did not (Allman 76). In the states that did have the ban only 56 percent of the people said they use their cell phone while driving, and in the states that did not have the ban, 69 percent of the people said that they used their cell phone while driving (Allman 76). There are still more studies being done to prove that the bans are effective, for example, in 2012 a professor at the University of Texas A&M, named Cheng Cheng, discovered that drivers texted 60 percent less and talked on the phone 40 percent less in states that had the ban (Allman 76). Laws can be very effective in controlling and reducing bad behaviors such as using a cellular phone while