Dangers of Texting while Driving Essay

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    In the United States, one out of every four accidents are caused by texting and driving. According to the National Safety Council, using a cell phone while driving leads to around 1.6 million crashes annually. Around 330,000 injuries to people are caused by those crashes from cell phone use while driving. When a person uses a cell phone while they’re behind the wheel, they significantly reduce the safety of drivers, passengers, other road users, and even the pedestrians around them. Cell…

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    Throughout the growth of the automobile, the public has also grown to accumulate some dangerous driving habits like driving under the influence, getting easily distracted, and speeding. The first poor habit they have gathered is driving under the influence of any drugs and alcohol. Driving while intoxicated can impair their ability to react thus, making it a danger to be behind the wheel. Their vision is also incapable of functioning as well as when sober. This kind of reckless behavior can be…

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    The research I did for this assignment about multitasking took me across many aspects of this practice of during many actions at once. After reading the essay ‘Now, where was I? Oh, yes, multitasking’ by Ellen Goodman she had various intriguing points on the problems we encounter with multitasking in the modern days. In the essay, it references a research study by Clifford Nass from Stanford University. The research was conducted with 100 students to evaluate their effectiveness in numerous…

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    Driving is a dangerous activity that can result in injuries and even deaths. It is important to obey the law and stay safe. You need to pay attention to what is going on around you and stay free of distractions. This could protect your life, as well as others. After reading articles about driving, some information stood out to me. These subjects include, the dangers of distracted driving, the most common age of distracted driver incidents, why teenagers drive distracted, and ways to prevent car…

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    society, it’s safe to say that everyone has a cell phone; people are on their cell phone while walking, biking, while working out at the gym, working, and most dangerously-while driving. While some of these tasks are harmless; talking on a cell phone while driving is very harmful. Studies have shown that driving while using a cell phone is the same as drunk driving. Research has determined that driving while using a cell phone diminishes a driver’s response time and, drivers using phones likely…

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    Technology has been on an unwavering high rise for the past century. The amount of people driving now a days is increasing as well. Instead of having a conversation in person or picking up the phone to call someone, people choose to text one another. Text messaging has become the biggest framework for communication. Now a days, most everyone has a cell phone with them at all times. It has become habit to constantly pay attention to our cell phones, whether it be looking at who texted us,…

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    safe while on your cell and also the safety measures and problems they may cause like cancer. Cell phone safety: The argument does the use of cell phones cause cancer? And Texting while driving: Are you really that important, that it can’t wait? We talk, text, surf the net every chance we can get with our cell phone and not knowing the harm it can cause weather using it while we drive or just using it constantly to talk. The numbers that illustrate the dangers of cell phone use while…

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    There are pros and cons to everything. With texting and driving there are also some statistics that show the numbers of collisions not reducing or stay in the same. Along with not even doing anything with the attention of the driver. There have already been a significant amount of bans in many other provinces or states that people just get annoyed that there are so many bans, and they start to not care about any of the bans. Lastly, the amount of enforcement officers would have to do would be…

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    early twenties when the accident occurred, he was driving with one of his good friends going down a backroad at 55-60 MPH. The cause of the accident was another driver messing around in his car, not paying…

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    the vehicle. Distracted Driving is an issue that affects and changes many people’s lives daily. From the victim to the suspect of the accident, both sides are impacted greatly. Some of the problems do not even come from the distracted drivers themselves. Cell phone companies and automakers are coming up with the most up to date technologies that attract millennials and tech-savvy adults.These distractions can be a temptation to be a center of focus while somebody is driving a car. Humanity is…

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