The Ethics Of Texting And Driving

We have to be honest to ourselves, how many of us have texted someone or have looked at a text while driving? In fact, this has become one of the top killers in the nation, to the point that several states have passed laws that prohibit this type of behavior. However, laws haven’t been able to stop drivers from texting while they are driving and it has become an unsafe trend that keeps on growing and putting everyone in danger. Not only the people who multitask and text while driving are at risk, but also innocent people who are following rules and safety rules. Unfortunately, drivers of all ages think that they will be okay multitasking, and they think that they will be able to text and drive while at the same time remaining safe and focused on the road. How can you be so reckless (unconcerned) and not care about your own life and the life of others? Let’s stop for a minute and think if it 's really worth it to be hurt, hurt someone or even die or kill someone just to check and or reply to a text when that is something that could have waited? Questions like these are the type of questions that we should deeply analyze and reflect on.
When we start using our phones while driving our brains get affected. The brain doesn’t react as well as we think when prompted to do two different things. …show more content…
According to www.manneliasinjurylaw.com/distracted-driving/ "As we "share" tasks between parts of the brain, activity in one part will decrease as activity in another part increases; so as we focus on a conversation, for example, activity in the parietal lobe will decrease (by as much as 37% says a study by Carnegie Mellon University) " when it comes to us talking on the phone and driving our attention gets divided sometimes creating what is called inattention blindness which causes the driver to get of task and get distracted from the main thing that they should be focused