Why Texting and Driving is Bad Texting and driving is bad it puts everyone's life in danger pedestrians, other drivers, you, passengers, and animals. If you’re texting it is harder to see pedestrians putting their lives at risk. Texting makes a crash up to 23 times more likely. People who text and drive spend up to 10% percent of their time outside of their lane. Nine in ten teens expect a reply to a text within five minutes or less putting pressure on them to respond while driving.…
1.6 million crashes a year. From what you may ask? In this paper I will tell you why I think cell phones should not be used while driving. I will give all of the crash statistics, and what other people think of it.…
People should know that when they decide to use their phones they are putting others and their life at risk,probably causing a bad accident. They also should know that texting while driving is a huge error because is going to distract you from the road making you lose control of your vehicle. I really want to help people understand, that parking your car to the side it probably take the less than 10 seconds and they could stop for a second and answer or type a text message without having to put your or others life at risk,they should know how bad it is getting in a car…
In the article “Texting may be taking a toll” the author Katie Hafner explains how texting is affecting kids/teens in the world today. In “texting may be taking a toll”, Katie hafner states that physicians and psychologists are getting worried that texting is very well taking a toll on teens and that it's starting to cause sleeping issues and other issues in teens. Dr. Martin Joffe, who is a pediatrician in california surveyed many kids who says these kids/teens send hundreds of texts a day. “That's one every few minutes”.…
Many people text while driving; however, this may put their life and the lives of others at risk. Typing and sending a text message can take up to ten seconds; Taking the drivers eyes off the road, which makes them unaware of their surroundings. Therefore, there is always a better time and place to send a text message. People should not text while driving because it puts their life and the lives of others at risk, it takes their eyes off the road, and it can wait till a more relevant time. Do not text while driving people, it can wait.…
In society these days people are constantly glued to their phones. They cannot take their eyes off of their phones for even a minute out of fear that they will miss something. Many are guilty of this bad habit. Phones have corrupted people’s minds and have made them believe that texting or emailing are the only forms of communication.…
In our busy world today, we find ourselves doing more and more things that are unsafe while we are driving. We find ourselves getting more and more distracted by technology. We are texting while driving, talking on the phone while driving, and looking down to change the radio station. These things are being addressed in the media and even laws are being put in place in some states to deter people from engaging in such activities. What we don’t find is laws or testing for drowsy driving.…
” Eleven teens die because of texting while driving every day. Eleven teens that could be alive today if they or someone else had just put their cell phones away, out of sight. 1.3 million crashes were recorded in 2011 involved cell phones. Again, accidents that could have easily been prevented.…
For example, if someone is driving through a neighborhood and their phone rings or buzzes, there may be children playing outside. One steps out and gets hit because the driver did not see the child chase his ball into the road. It would be hard to live with hitting a child or anyone because of a text message that could have waited. “49 percent of adults surveyed say they have texted while driving” (Copel), also “more than 4 in 10 teens have admitted to texting and driving” (“Study: Teens Who Text and Drive Take Even More Risks”). Hitting a mailbox or running a red light is dangerous but sometimes the damage is only to a vehicle or property.…
Texting while driving is becoming now a controversial issue. The fact that people send or read messages while they are on the road is causing accidents and problems for both, the drivers and the people around them. Despite all the laws that have been created only the minority is listening and paying attention to this. In my opinion, people need more education concerning all this. They need to realize once and for all that these recent laws are not here without a purpose.…
A visual distraction is anything that takes your eyes off the road. While driving we are constantly being side tracked by signs and advertisements we see all over the place from the newest restaurants opening, to the $100 billion Powerball billboards on the highway, the last thing you need to be doing is trying to reply to a text while paying attention to all of these catchy signs. Cognitive distractors are anything that takes your mind off the road like engaging in a conversation via text or talking on the phone, or trying to operate your navigating system while en route. The National Safety Council states, “Drivers talking on cell phones miss half of the information in their driving environment” (National Safety Council) which causes people to become unaware of their surroundings. And lastly, manual distractions which are any distractors causing you to take your hands off the wheel such as reaching for your phone to send that quick text.…
Advances in technology can help provide entertainment and help pass time and stay in touch with family and friends. Although cell phone were used to keep in touch, for business purposes but car using were not one of the purposes that phone were made to serve as, while distracting drivers and kill and or injuring people and their fore making it a public concern. Obtaining a cell phone is easy considering that it is inexpensive and affordable, and serves at multiple uses such as GPS, calling checking the Temperature, it serves as a calculator, and many other features. " And some phones can even access computer applications.…
When it comes to texting while driving, only about 1 out of 5 young drivers think that texting makes no difference to their driving performance. The issue concern addressed here is not that mobile devices have become this great widespread readily available communication tooltool, but the consequences that it causes because of the lack of common sense of its use. The primary concern is the results of the use of this device while driving. In 2011, 3,333 people were killed as a result of distracted drivers and an estimated additional 387,000 were injured (Distraction.govDistracted Driving, 2013). These findings should yield something to change, and distracted drivers should recognize the danger they cause.…
Imagine lying in bed, curled up with a good book when all of a sudden your phone starts blowing up with texts. You want to keep reading because your book is at such a good point, but then you stop and check your phone; just in case your crush texted you or your best friend has some hot gossip to tell you. The average American person will roughly send about 32-33 texts a day, although numbers may vary depending on age, according to Text Request. That is roughly around 13.4% of your time texting per day. Are people starting to spend too much time texting rather than having a good ole face-to-face conversation?…
You are driving down the road, and you get a text from one of your friends. You look down to read the text. After you finish reading, you look up and you are in the other lane. You over correct yourself out of fear, and you crash into a tree on the side of the road. National Safety Council said, “More than one in four car crashes involves cell phone use.”…