Imagine that you are a newlywed husband. You and your wife are happily married and just came back to Texas from your honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. You are 37 years old and drives a BMW X5. Your wife is 34 years old and she drives a Toyota Camry. Both of you guys cannot last a minute without being around each other. One day, you and your wife you and your wife cannot stop texting each other. You all are texting each other in the house, at work, and even in line at the grocery store check-out. Because you guys have been constantly texting, you do not realize that you are getting into your car texting. You turn on your ignition, and take the car out of park. You are still texting your wife. You cannot help to resist your phone when she sends a message stating, “She is on 5th Avenue about to cross Butterfly Lane.” Realizing you are on the same street, you respond in no time challenging her to see who can make it home the fastest. She then sends a message replying, “She has a surprise for you waiting at home, and she cannot wait to see your facial
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Texting and driving makes you twenty-three percent more likely to be involved in an accident (10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Text and Drive). Americans tend to believe that the leading cause of car crashes are crashes of drunk drivers however, it is drivers who text while driving. Heidi E. Nemme and Katherine M. White states, “Given that texting requires drivers to redirect their vision away from the road and towards the mobile phone screen or keypad and to remove their hands from the steering wheel to write or read a message (Hosking, Young, & Regan, 2006), texting while driving is especially dangerous.” Basically, Nemme and White is saying that when a person is paying more attention to their phone rather than paying attention to the road the vehicle is more than likely to lose control and affect yourself, your passengers, and other
Texting and driving makes you twenty-three percent more likely to be involved in an accident (10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Text and Drive). Americans tend to believe that the leading cause of car crashes are crashes of drunk drivers however, it is drivers who text while driving. Heidi E. Nemme and Katherine M. White states, “Given that texting requires drivers to redirect their vision away from the road and towards the mobile phone screen or keypad and to remove their hands from the steering wheel to write or read a message (Hosking, Young, & Regan, 2006), texting while driving is especially dangerous.” Basically, Nemme and White is saying that when a person is paying more attention to their phone rather than paying attention to the road the vehicle is more than likely to lose control and affect yourself, your passengers, and other