Hang Up: It’s Not Just Your Life
Brad Gardner
Michael Hunter
ENG215
November 4, 2014

Hang up: It's not just your life
Although it appears to be a common sense notion, the differences in laws and regulations regarding the use of mobile devices while driving are not the same from state to state. No one person is a better-distracted driver than the next and because of this, all states should have standardized policies regarding the use of mobile devices while driving.
Every day we can make a change; make better choices, to make a difference in our lives and the lives of others. We can make a simple choice to hang up our cell phone before getting in our car and driving. We can choose not to accidently run over a young child walking across the street on their way to school due to the distraction of a cell phone. It sounds simple enough to do; yet, every second, someone decides to take that child's life. They decide that it is more important to answer their phone or reply to a text while driving over the wellbeing of others.
Distracted driving and its repercussions have been a growing concern since the first-day drivers began using mobile devices. The first cellular phones became available for consumer use in the mid-80s. Widespread use was not marked for almost another decade. In the early 90s, less than 4.5 million people used cell phones. Over the last 15 or so years the population of cell phone users has spiked to over 230 million, according to statistics from the Insurance Information Group (cellphonesafety, 2013).
With greater accessibility to technology; there also, should come a greater responsibility on properly using that technology. In today’s society, the use of mobile devices has become so common that over 97% of adults own a cell phone. (Gibson, 2014). People have become tethered to their technology. The problem is not our dependency to this technology;