Driving Age Essay

Texting and Driving Distracted driving, also called texting and driving, is when a person driving a car is texting, emailing, talking on the phone or on social media. Texting and driving was not a very big problem before the 2000s because cell phones have only recently become a big thing. Texting became popular around 1997, but only a small number of people owned smartphones. Texting and driving has also only recently become a very deadly problem in the United States due to more people…

drivers should be required to undergo lessons and information sessions prior to driving on the roads. Drivers between the ages of 15 to 34 represent close to 30% of the driving population; however, they have accounted for 40% of the fatalities and 45% of the serious injuries, demonstrating that younger drivers are a great risk to everyone when driving. Before allowing young and inexperienced drivers to enter the world of driving, there should be many new/ and modified requirements regarding…

departments for injuries suffered in motor-vehicle crashes. What makes teenage drivers such a hazard on the road? Eight factors called the Eight Danger Zones; driver inexperience, driving with teenage passengers, nighttime driving, not using seat belts, distracted driving, drowsy driving, reckless driving, and lastly impaired driving. The first danger zone is driver…

of participants agreed that any form of text driving has negative or very negative effects on their performance, nearly 35% of them reported that they still frequently or very frequently do text driving. This finding is supported by National safety Council report about distracted drivers (4). Despite participants’ stated belief in the dangers, they reported using cell phones while driving. There are four types of distractions considered in text driving: visual, auditory, manual, and cognitive.…

stuck driving behind a person going 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. Every time someone pulls out in front of them, it seems as though it is always an elder. Many people have this perception that the reasons why there are all these accidents on the road is because the older people do not use their vision, cannot hear as well, and lose their reaction time. The majority of the population is in the elder generation. We cannot take away the older generations freedom of driving. Driving is a…

Since distracted driving resulted in over 3,200 deaths, and 391,000 injuries a year (National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2017), is creating devices making hands-free cell use easier while driving ethically defensible from an interactive designer’s viewpoint? At first blush, hands-free cell usage appears to solve problems of distraction. However, there are three types of distracted driving: visual, manipulative, and cognitive. When it comes to cell phone usage, hands-free may mitigate…

at once while driving that could lead you to death. All it takes is sending a text, or reading a text. During those 3 seconds of you reading or sending a text while your driving at aproximace 55 miles an hour or higher would be like you driving the length of a whole football field, blind! This is why I think they should make stronger laws on texting while driving for the U.S.A.’s safety, and for the younger kids that are still in highschool, not even an adult. TEXTING WHILE DRIVING SHOULD HAVE…

researched was elderly driving. “An average of 586 older adults are injured every day in crashes”. Elderly driving is very different than just a normal mid-age driver. When driving at an older age you need to have the mental skills to be able to drive. Some of the things that slow down as you get older are, slowdown in response time, a loss of vision and hearing, a loss of muscle strength and flexibility, and lower tolerance of alcohol. All of these are important to driving and increase the…

Driving takes skills such as good eyesight, concentration, safety skills, and judgement. There are many challenges to getting a driver’s license, and teenagers are not as inclined to get a driver’s license anymore because of inexperience with driving and more challenging driving conditions. The road test is also more demanding, and driving education and the price to insure a teenager gets more expensive every year. Parents also play an important role into whether their child decides to start…

Road Rage: Road rage is responsible for many deaths world-wide due to angry drivers on the road, and the number of deaths caused by road rage is only increasing each year. Road rage is an act of violence due to being angry at someone while driving on the road. In scientist’s terms, road rage is an intermittent explosive disorder, leading to outbursts that involve breaking objects and violence to others. The first recorded incidences of road rage occurred approximately 40 years ago in England.…