When I get into my car every morning, I connect my phone to the radio via Bluetooth. I cannot drive without music. After I’ve selected the playlist I feel that day, I put my phone down to back out of my driveway, but it’s already taken some of my concentration before I reach the first stop sign. I got a text message. Like most of us, I have to check it, but I’m careful, so it’s safe, right? Not necessarily. This is the world we live in. People are so memorized by their phones and the thought that someone wants to communicate with them that it’s almost uncontrollable. My whole life I was drilled about the consequences of distracted driving. “Never text and drive,” they said. I have been a licensed driver for over three
