Texting While Driving in Minnesota Editorial Car crashes are no laughing matter. Being in a car crash and seeing a family suffer because of the crash is devastating. The only thing being more horrific than witnessing the crash is being the reason it started. There is no need to be on your phone while driving. Emails, texts, and social media can wait. In their editorial, Editorial Board, Star Tribune explains why a bipartisan plan to restrict cellphone use while driving should get approved this session in Minnesota. First, Star Tribune incorporates specific details to emphasize the significance of this bill getting put in place. Then, Star Tribune appeals to your logos by adding statistics into their editorial to express the injury and death …show more content…
These are all reasons that can lead to distracted driving. Star Tribune writes that there are too many motorists killed or injured on the road which is "a clearly preventable problem." By incorporating this specific detail, Star Tribune conveys how they want a change to happen. This establishes a concerned tone. The specific detail was not needed; however, the detail was incorporated to express the Star Tribune's apprehension towards distracted driving accidents. Star Tribune explains that a bill introduced by Republican lawmakers would make it illegal to use a handheld device while on the road. If the bill goes into effect, it would start as early as July "about half way through the busy summer driving season." Star Tribune integrates this specific detail into their editorial to again elucidate the trepidation they feel about car accidents. Summer is a busy season and the bill getting put in place would save numerous lives. Star Tribune also explains that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration created new guidelines which ask makers and developers of electric devices to design their products to cut back on distractions while driving. The modification would disable functions "such as playing videos, text entry or internet browsing" while the device is in moving vehicle. Star Tribune adds this specific detail to ponder some problems behind driving accidents. By acknowledging the problems, Star Tribune expresses why the bill needs to …show more content…
Star Tribune mentions that according to the Department of Public Safety, "distracted driving causes on in four Minnesota car crashes and results in at least 70 deaths and 305 serious injuries a year." This statistic appeals to logos by explaining how distracted driving is a serious matter. The statistic conveys an informative tone. Star Tribune incorporates the statistic to build their ethos. The statistic makes car accidents seem more realistic to their audience. This causes the audience to get alarmed about car accidents as well. Then, Star Tribune writes that the U.S. Department of Transportation reports, "Nationally, highway deaths spiked to 35,092 in 2015, the highest one-year increase since 1966." Star Tribune includes this statistic to explain how deadly car crashes are. This establishes a fretful tone. The statistic appeals to the audience's logical reasoning about how car accidents need to stop. The statistic also builds Star Tribune's ethos by quoting the U.S Department of Transportation: A trusted source. Star Tribune also adds that the U.S. Department of Transportation blamed the 7.2 percent of deaths per miles traveled on drunken driving, speeding, distracted driving from a phone or other hand held device. The data concluded "that about 10 percent of fatal crashes in 2015 involved at least one distracted driver." The statistic means that for every 3,509 car accident death, at least one death was from
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Distracted drivers in Illinois don’t perceive the dangerous of taking their eyes of the road. Distracted driving in Illinois is so dangerous because it takes a drivers attention away from the primary task of driving. One text message or Email is a distraction for a driver because their probably texting someone at the moment or are expecting a text from someone, and are eager to read the text message. “Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration tell that When texting, drivers took their eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds” (Opposing Viewpoints). Talking your eyes of the road even for a minute is extremely dangerous, a fiasco can happen even if you’re driving around the neighborhood. Drivers think that they are perceived of everything while driving in a neighborhood, and no fiasco can happened. Some drivers are not perceive that young pedestrians (children) cross the streets without any reprimand, and if a driver at the moment is distracted a fiasco can occur. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and bystander safety. Another way death can occur is in the expressway where millions of cars are driving through the expressway in a high speed lim...
Writing, according to an article in Times Magazine titled “Is Texting Killing the English Language” by John McWhorter, is an art that has been around for about 5,500 years. Since writing is deliberate and takes more time to compose, it’s usually better thought out and sounds more sophisticated. Speech, on the other hand, is more of an “unconscious” practice.
Distracted driving is such an increasing problem in the U.S. that there are laws against driving distracted. In New Jersey there is a handheld ban for all drivers and that is a primary law. There is a ban on all cell phone use (handheld and hands-free) for novice drivers. There is also a ban on texting for all drivers. This problem Is growing, drivers who are texting are 23.2 times more likely to get into a crash than people who aren’t (Cell Phones and Texting). Every driver takes their eyes off the road for approximately 4.6 seconds when texting. Driving is a new skill for teens, so doing multiple things simultaneously takes more effort for them than for more experienced drivers. Texting and driving can ruin families because when texting and driving there is a higher chance of getting in a crash. There are only 2 percent of people who can actually multitask successfully. Even though teens are more likely to try multitasking they are still part of the 98 percent who can’t do it safely. For example, Nebraska teen Emily Reynolds says...
According to Stephanie Hanes in the essay “Texting While Driving Is as Dangerous as Drunk Driving,” a driver on a phone and those talking on a phone are four times likely to crash. This statistic shows how dangerous using the phone or even texting is while driving. As technology has increased, so has the use of cellphone. Distracted driving has caused an increase in car fatalities and disasters. However, distracted driving can be prevented if drivers take precautions, but no matter what we do, trouble will always be spelling on the road.
The Northern Virginia driving populace expands consistently coming about because of business and lodging development. Every year additionally brings a wave of new adolescents into the driving populace. Every day amid my average drive one hour drive, I watch drivers content informing on their mobile phones. A late review led by Journey Safe, a safe driving support association, found that in excess of 90% of teens confess to doing different tasks while driving, for example, chatting on the phone, consuming, playing noisy music, channel surfing, utilizing mp3 players, and cooperating with companions in the auto actually when they concede they think that it occupying. The same study results demonstrate that a staggering 75% of adolescents confessed to content informing while driving. Content informing while driving is a developing pattern and is turning into one of the country 's top executioners. In 2011, 1.3 billion (almost 25% of all) car crashes came about because of messaging while driving and 11 adolescents kicked the bucket commonplace from messaging while driving. Notwithstanding, just thirty-nine (39) states in addition to DC restrict all drivers from content informing. Honestly, distracted driving is a perilous reality and it makes driving unsafe business for everybody on the streets. Americans ought to backing the
“Do you want to answer that?” asked the little boy to the man. In today’s society, most people don't text or drive if they have other people in the car with them. AT&T shows that in this video by having a family oriented dad that won’t text and drive with his precious little girl’s in the vehicle and even when the little boy shows up too. When the little boy asked the question if he was going to answer that, the man knew he couldn’t text with the boy in there, even though the little boy passed away. The man killed that little boy from texting and driving. AT&T uses this video to show the consequences of what texting and driving can do. In this video, “The Unseen,” uses many rhetorical techniques, like pathos and family situations, to show how
Most people think of someone using their cell phone while driving when they hear distracted driving, but it it much more than that. Distracted driving is when someone who is behind the wheel get distracted by either taking their hands off the wheel or take their mind of driving, which can cause them to get into an accident (paragraph 2). Distracted driving is broken down into three main parts, manual distractions which is taking your hands off the steering wheel, visual distractions which is taking your center of attention off the road and cognitive distraction which is when your mind is not focused on driving and just starts drifting away (paragraph 3). Cell phone use is easily the biggest cause of distracted driving compared to eating, talking, and others because using your cell phone requires visual, manual and cognitive attention from the person behind the wheel and in a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, the amount of people who break the law and use a handheld device behind the wheel increases every single year. An estimated amount of more than, six hundred thousand people use their phone while driving. Distracted driving has quickly risen and developed in the past few years and is becoming an enormous problem. In a recent study, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), showed statistics of approximately three thousand, one hundred fifty
Advertising is extremely important for multi-million dollar companies. Ads are meant to persuade the reader to buy or consider their product or idea. Marketers must visually please the reader in order to successfully promote their business. Bayerische Motoren Werke, better known as BMW, released an image on BMWblog.com in 2011 as part of a “don’t text and drive” campaign in association with the National Safety Council. BMW is known for their reliable and stylish automobiles and motorcycles; additionally, they are known now for their care for motorists.
Texting and driving is a deadly issue in today 's generation. Using our cellphones while driving is a damaging habit among teens and adults. This habit caused many catastrophic accidents and deaths. Texting while driving has made the roads unsafe for other drivers. Many states recognize the immense threat resulting from texting and driving and have placed a ban on this epidemic. While many people realize texting and driving is hazardous others believe that the ban is useless and not strong enough of a solution.
There are many people that drive in this world. In this day and age it's kind of a necessity to be able to drive. People generally need to drive to work on a very regular basis, usually five days a week. This means that there is a lot of different things happening, both good and bad, that create many statistics. I will be discussing some of those statistics today. There are definitely many different statistics I could discuss with you. Just a few of them are distracted driving statistics, teen driving statistics, texting and driving statistics, and even drunk driving statistics. There are even more I could list off, but that would be a very long list.
This proves that there needs to be more done in order to educate drivers of how hands free technology is actually very dangerous; this danger is referred to as "inattention blindness" and can lead to drivers missing items such as stop signs and pedestrians ("Tech to Prevent Distracted Driving").This shows that hands free technology is not the answer to solving this problem. Even though many states have banned the use of phones while driving, this is not
Not only does it put the driver of the car in danger, but it also puts the passengers and the surrounding cars at risk. Using a cell phone while driving has been proven to be just as dangerous as driving under the influence. At any given moment during the day, around 800,000 people are driving cars while using a hand-held device, which unfortunately puts everyone else at risk of a car crash. In the recent year, 21% of fatal car crashes involved the use of a cellular device (Prof. David J. Hanson, 1997-2015). Unfortunately, humans, especially teenagers, cannot put down their cell phones while they drive due to the many notifications they receive. They are addicted. This points back to how the cell phones are affecting the mental health of humans. In 2007, Bailey Goodman, a seventeen-year-old, was killed along with four of her friends in a car accident. Goodman
In 2014 the percentage of drivers visibly working a handheld device or sending a text message increased to 2.2 percent compared to the 1.7 percent in 2013, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration traffic safety notes on Distraction.gov. A growing debate topic in the United States is whether or not texting and driving should be banned. While some people believe that it would be a law that cops would have difficulty enforcing because it is hard to recognize, others believe that by banning texting and driving people will accede to law due to moral values and the treacherous consequences of texting behind the wheel. Lawmakers in the United States should construct a federal law banning texting and driving because there are
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.