Text messaging

Texting and driving makes you twenty-three percent more likely to be involved in an accident (10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Text and Drive). Americans tend to believe that the leading cause of car crashes are crashes of drunk drivers however, it is drivers who text while driving. Heidi E. Nemme and Katherine M. White states, “Given that texting requires drivers to redirect their vision away from the road and towards the mobile phone screen or…

greatly increasing the risks of an accident. Per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving was the cause of nearly one in five accidents resulting in injury in 2013 (DOT HS 812 132). Hands-free alternatives such as voice-to-text have been offered as possible solutions even being integrated into vehicles, despite research suggesting it to still be a distraction (Rosenberger 38-40). The only viable solution to increase road safety is for people to eschew technology…

demographic. Technology is meant to bring people closer together not isolate them. However, despite the technology historically not been fully optimized for these groups, it has had some advances in the past years. Some advances include Facetime and text messaging for the deaf community and the ability to customize technology to accommodate the disabilities of the elderly. Looking first at the deaf community, the phone was originally damaging as phones only utilized the use of hearing. When…

would say “lol” the abbreviated form of “laugh out loud.” Likewise, the article further states that “Texting during class is an ongoing problem for many schools and the Mercy Hurst University website explains that aside from being disrespectful, text-messaging students are not providing their teachers with undivided attention.” If texting during classes prevent teens from performing simple skills, such as attentive listening in order to just pay attention to their work. Then as a result teens…

approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving(“Distracted”). Many teenagers nowadays are able to access their license at the age of 16. Teenagers are already inexperienced drivers, and many of them text and drive. In 2014, 3,179 people were killed, and 431,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers (“Distracted”). It should be a wake up call to every American that over 3,000 people died in 2014 because of…

real conversation with their children. The less we have face-to-face conversations, the more attached we get to our cell phones. Some children do not know how to have a conversation without their phones. I know for me that sometimes I would rather text message someone than talk to them in person. I get scared to tell people what I am honestly thinking because I have hidden behind my phone for so…

manual, and visual concentration. Texting while driving is arguably the worst distraction to drivers. AAA has found that nearly 1 in 3 drivers (32 percent) admit to typing or sending a text or email over the past month, while eight percent say they do so fairly often or regularly (AAA). In fact, text messaging increases the risk of a car accident or near car accident 23.2 times when compared to the car accident statistics with a non-distracted driver (Top 25 Causes of Car Accidents). Cell…

Risky Behavior Do we take driving serious enough? We tend to veer our attention to other activities and not focus on what is going on in front of us. Not paying attention to what we are doing can be risky. In both “The Dangers of Texting While Driving” written by the Federal Communications Commission and “Multitasking, texting” by Journalist Resource, it explains that in 2012 there have been around 3,300 fatalities and between 387,000-400,000 people were injured in driver distraction…

In the twenty-first century, cell phones play an important role in the lives of all people. Across countries and across cultures, people stay connected through social media and the internet. Men, women, and children tie their lives to their cell phones, and they become easily distracted by the pictures and sounds emanating from the tiny screen. When driving, the small distractions cell phones present can add up to devastating consequences. All states should pass laws designating cell phone use…

percent of young drivers 18 to 20 are willing to answer incoming phone calls on some, most, or all driving trips” (US. National Highway). Many people state that they only look down for “a second” or that it is just “one quick text”. The reality is that, “At 55 mph, the average text takes your eyes off the road long enough to cover a football field” (US. CDC). This problem has been constantly ignored and has…