You are driving down the road in your brand new Cadillac Escalade. The sky is bright blue without a cloud in the sky. Your phone rings and you answer it. You start talking and get deeply involved in the conversation. Before you know it, you just ran a red light and get side swiped by a school bus. Your life is now upside down. Finally, you are able to pull yourself out of your new Escalade with no injury. However, a few of the students have been injured and one killed. Now you have to live with that for the rest of your life. This is a prime example of cell phone distraction. Therefore, all cell phone usage in vehicles should be prohibited throughout the United States. Many people have invested in hands-free headsets for their phones. Although this is an excellent idea for phone use during many activities, driving is not one of them. Hands-free headsets or hands-free systems are just as dangerous as holding your phone when you are talking and listening to a conversation while driving. Medical research on the brain has publicized that you can only deeply concentrate on one thing at a time; therefore, when you are driving, you should not talk on the phone. The whole point of driving is to travel from point A to point B. You need to concentrate on what is in front of and surrounding you, not talk on your cell phone with your significant other or anyone. Cell phones are a convenience, not a necessity for driving. If you need to make a phone call or answer an important call, then you need to find a place to pull over first. It is not worth getting in an accident and risking your life over a phone conversation. Texting on the phone is definitely not a positive option while driving either. Most people have to look at... ... middle of paper ... ... Apparently, people need to be reminded that their full attention on the road is necessary while driving. Do you remember when you had to take a driving test so that you could drive legally? There was no possible way that you could use your cell phone during the test because you were required to have your full attention on the road with both hands placed at ten and two o’clock on the steering wheel. If United States citizens could just put their cell phones out of hands’ reach until they arrive at their destinations, the country would have safer roads and highways. It is a fact that automobile accidents would be lowered tremendously if all of the states participated in the ban of cell phone use while driving. Together, politicians and the people of the United States urgently need to have all cell phone use while driving banned in the rest of the fifty states.
One day Chandler Gerber 23, of Bluffton collided with an Amish buggy back in April of 2012. A three year old boy and a five year old girl were killed. A 17 year old boy who was in critical condition died several days later. Chandler was sending a text that said “ I love you” to his wife when he caused the accident. Drivers who were texting were 23.2 times more likely to crash to those who weren’t texting (Cell Phones and Texting). The increasing amount of crashes caused from texting and driving and growing and becoming more of a problem. Distracted driving is an increasing problem in the United States resulting in many accidents, but a solution to the problem would be banning cellphones while driving.
While it is true that laws do not stop one hundred percent of infractions, they serve as a great disincentive, and can greatly reduce the number of people who do text and drive. With less distracted driving there are fewer accidents, meaning fewer car repairs and hospital bills. Not only that, but it means that fewer people become injured and can even reduce the number of deaths. It is important, therefore, that laws be enacted to prohibit the use of cell phones while driving. Every automobile accident that a loved one of mine has experienced has been due to distracted driving. Whether it be friends or family, they all vividly recount a sense of distractedness from the other driver and anger at them for driving recklessly. With this in mind, it becomes more than just an issue of nationwide expenses, it is a personal worry of mine that I or someone I love will be seriously injured in an accident caused by cell phone use. Especially considering that nearly all of my friends have now gotten their licenses and are on the roads, I want them to be as safe as possible. Laws prohibiting cell phone use and distracted driving are therefore very important to me, as they are just one of the necessary steps that our country must take in order to reduce the number of accidents and increase safety
There is a high percentage of people that spend a majority of their day sitting behind the wheel of a vehicle. Whether it is commuting to work, taking the kids to school, running errands, or simply going out to eat one may feel that their car has become a second home. With so much time spent behind the wheel, drivers become comfortable and incorporate distracting activities while trying to remain focused on the road. Our inability to put our cell phones away while driving is inexcusable. Drivers who choose to use mobile devices are endangering people’s lives and property with associated risks that are not acceptable. No one distracted driver is better than the next. Do to rising accidents
The use of cell phones while a vehicle in motion should be banned throughout the United States. Texting, searching the internet, talking on the phone is a very big distraction, and could cause someone to get hurt or even worse; killed and the current teenage generation thinks talking on a cellphone while driving is second nature. It’s a known fact that the use of cell phones while driving can be deadly. It only takes one split second for a person to look away from the road to cause an accident. So-called distracted driving crashes claimed 5,474 lives and led to 448,000 injuries across the country last year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA]. (Mayerowitz, Scott, and Lisa Stark. par. 4)Yet people continue to talk, text and browse the internet while operating a motor vehicle.
Some of us love them so much that constantly have to have them in our hands. Sure that our whole life might be on cell phone, however we should not let it be the reason to end our life in a car crash. Many of us use our cellphones while driving, because we naturally like to think that nothing bad could happen to us, and that we are always in control. But usually that is not the case. According to text and driving safety.com “77% of young adults are very or somewhat confident that they can safely text and while driving. 55% of young adult drivers claims it’s easy to text while they drive” Rather than having a safe point A to point B trip inside our vehicle, we rather flex our awesome multitasks skills and use our cell phone while
While I was driving to my house the other day I received a text message. Instantly I grabbed it and answered at the same time I was driving. For just a second I distracted myself to see the cellphone instead of paying attention to the road. When I looked again at the road I realized that I had just passed a stop sign without noticing! Why are we so obsessed with cellphones? Why can’t we wait to answer? The problem that I would like to address is the addiction to mobile devices and communication. The inappropriate use of these devices causes accidents since they easily distracts you from the road and even though it makes you closer with the ones that are away, it also takes you away from the ones that are close to you. The solution that I give to this problem is to create a law in the state of Florida that prohibits and penalizes the use of cellphones without hands free and texting while you are driving.
The use of cellphones has become more popular with every passing year, causing many people to become physically and emotionally attached to their cellphones. American society today is constantly on the phone, from texting, to calling, to surfing the web, to even taking pictures; people seem to never put their phones down. Since the use of cells phones is skyrocketing, it has brought up an issue that the use of these devices while behind the wheel increases accidents (Hahn and Preiger par. 1). People don’t realize how distracting a cellphone can really be. Distracted driving is defined as, “driving a vehicle while engaging in an activity that has the potential to distract the driver from the task of driving”(dictionary. reference.com). Almost everyone owns a cellphone today, causing distracted driving to become a big issue (Driven to Distraction par. 1). When a driver is distracted from driving they are unaware of the things happening in their driving environment. Using a cellphone while driving causes drivers to become distracted from driving physically, visually, cognitively and from their auditory senses.
When a cell phone rings in a movie theater or at a Library, we are annoyed, but at least our lives are not at risk of death. When we are driving, however, selfish cell phone users are more than annoying: They are putting our lives at risk. We have all seen distracted drivers texting and driving or talking on the phone they resemble drunk drivers, swerving in the lanes, or running red lights. States have passed bills to hopefully reduce the amount of texting drivers. Laws are needed because people who drive while using their cell phones are never really paying attention to what they are doing while driving which can end up getting someone injured or even worse dead.
Drivers today are distracted by an infinite amount of sources. Along with traveling, people today have much to get done in a day and are prone to multitask at the wheel. The main offenders such as texting, eating, and fiddling with the radio take eyes off the road. However in addition to the most notable causes of diversion talking on the phone is a major distraction that often goes uncredited. Drivers take their eyes off the road to dial numbers and then proceed to have a conversation while driving, rather than pulling over. Likewise many people are already calling for cell phone use to be completely banned from Pennsylvania roads like it is in other states. The state of Pennsylvania should ban all hand held cellphone use from its roads.
... driving is avoidable. Using cell phone while driving is very dangerous and life risking because drivers would be easily distracted. Using cell phone while driving is unnecessary, unless in emergency situations.
For your own safety, it is best to avoid talking on your cell phone while driving, even if it is legal for you to do so. If you are someone who knows you are going to be tempted by your phone going off, either turn off the sound, or place it somewhere where you will be unable to reach it while driving. If you have a passenger, you may want to have your passenger answer your phone or respond to
First and foremost, the risk of using a phone while driving is a big chance of an accident more than what the people think. According to the Harvard study “Texting while driving and other forms of distracted driving are responsible for more than 1 million crashes, 400,000 injuries, and 3,000 deaths in the U.S. each year—and those numbers are likely to in...
I, as a driver, too, think that cell phone use while driving is a distraction. Even though I personally don’t own a phone, I have used one. I noticed that talking on the cellular phone and driving doesn’t make it hard to focus on the road. But it is difficult and a major distraction to dial-up a number without losing focus on the road. Dialing a number is the main distraction about cel...
It is a huge responsibility to drive a car and one which should not be taken for granted because it is associated with the lives of others. By speaking on cell phones while driving, such a responsibility is treated with impunity and the dangers ignored.
Over the last few decades, the use of cell phones has become a very common tool. Furthermore, Technology has certainly advanced, and the cell phone is becoming the most preferred mode of communication. The demand for a cell phone is growing every day. In addition, the use of wireless technology is affordable, and anyone can buy a cell phone at a reasonable price. They come in all shapes and sizes. They range from black to bright metallic white. American public use of cell phones is increasing everyday. As the number of people using cell phones increase, the use of cell phones while driving will also increase on our streets and highways. At the same rate, motorists still converse on cell phones and write text messages while driving. Motorist will also engage in other activities apart from driving. For example, drivers will text when driving, and they will dial numbers. Drivers will receive calls and converse with the recipient for long periods. Again, driving demands your full attention, and your concentration needed when talking on the phone. However, it means that the driver has to divert his attention to the conversation, which leads to less concentration on the road. On the contrary, one can therefore connect motorist’s accidents and cell phone usage while driving.