Driving

These types of statistics exemplify how bad Florida’s on road safety can truly be. Driving while distracted can be very dangerous and not only poses a threat to the driver’s life but other individuals that may encounter the distracted driver. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sending and/or reading a text can take your eyes off the road for about 5 seconds. This is equivalent to driving through a football field while blinded (“Distracted…

Decrease in Brain Activation Associated with Driving When Listening to Someone Speak” from Brain Research by researchers Marcel Adam Just, Timothy Keller, and Jacquelyn Cynkar, they look into whether listening to someone speak has an effect on the driver’s ability. They discovered through their experiment that listening to someone while driving can decrease the proficiency of the driving. They say that “the sentence listening task reliably degraded driving performance, and in addition, it…

Driving is a very dangerous activity on its own because you are moving a very heavy chunk of metal, going up to 80 MPH, in very close proximity to other cars who are doing the same thing. When you add in technology like phones, radios, and even other people, it makes driving even more dangerous. There are hundreds of car crashes a day. Any way to reduce the risk from distracted driving is a positive one. So I agree with the law it should be illegal to used a hand held phone while driving.…

be banned from driving to and from school if their area provides bus services. The reason for this idea is that doing this would simultaneously relieve traffic congestion and fix morning tardiness issues. However, I submit that such an action would be undesirable for both the students and the school. My reasoning for this statement is as follows: Firstly, banning students from driving to school would deprive them of the numerous benefits of doing so. Not only does driving…

continues to turn, the frequency of these tragedies continues to excel and more deaths and injuries are being counted. Texting and driving, the largest national epidemic known to the United States. In the year 2013, The Department of Transportation compiled a total of 3,154 deaths and 420,000 injuries counted due to the distraction of a cell phone. Texting and Driving is becoming a detrimental trend in the American culture because the statistics of death and injury are still being counted and…

2007 Labor Day, Hillary Coltnarp began texting and driving which caused her to loose control, crossed the median, and roll three times before flying 75 feet in the air and landed with a skull fracture, that’s a bad injury for just sending a simple text huh. Did you know that in 5 seconds going 55mph you can go a whole football field. Say you were looking at your phone for those 5 seconds, that is a long distance to cover without seeing. Sending a text will completely take your focus off the…

tires to use for the winter season. These tires are specifically made to withstand the harsh conditions of snow and ice while increasing traction. Preparation is vital in winter driving conditions. In case of emergency,…

The newest advancements in the automotive industry are coming in the form of artificial intelligence. Having assisted-driving cars can relieve stress from driving and increase traffic safety; however, they may also introduce new moral dilemmas. Patrick Lin, the director of Ethics and Emerging Sciences at California Polytechnic, poses a scenario of assisted-driving cars with an adjustable ethics setting and who would be responsible for the actions of the car. How the responsibility is divided…

Distracted driving is very serious and dangerous. It is because of so many drivers being distracted behind the wheel that cause dozens of accidents and deaths every day. There are many different types of distracted driving, you could be on your cell phone, or eating a sandwich, listening to music, or even just an emotional mess, distractions are everywhere, inside or outside your vehicle. Inside the vehicle you have more of a risk at being distracted because you could have a fairly talkative…

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. There are many methods…