...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee8–12 of this unit. fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff The use of cell phones while driving Drivers should not be able to use their cell phones while driving, for the reason that the use of a cell phone while operating a vehicle is hazardous for the driver, but also for others around them. Almost everyone has seen or heard a ad about texting and driving and what damage they cause. Although it is not a consistent problem, cell phones do cause wrecks and some have been fatal. Cell phones were first introduced in the U.S. in the mid 1980’s, and have since experienced dramatic growth. According to the United States Department of Transportation, 5,747 people were killed because of driving distractions and approximately 448,000 were injured in 2009 alone. Cellular phones are becoming increasingly popular, marked by a 1,685 percent increase in the number of users from 1988 to 1995. So as a result, many, many people use cell phones, some need to, like businessmen or lawyers who depend on phones to run their business. Furthermore going over how dangerous texting and driving really is, and how fatal they are; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that in 2010 driver distraction was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes – with 3,092 people killed – and crashes resulting in an injury – with 416,000 people wounded. Eleven percent of drivers aged 18 to 20 who were involved in an automobile accident...
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...Although, many people think talking on their phone while driving will never hurt anyone, in time dreadful situations can occur. Though some believe that, others believe that they are putting themselves and others in harms way. Talking on the phone while driving, can leave you laying in a body bag, and it can happen to anyone, at anytime, or anywhere. First and foremost, talking on the phone and driving at the same time can put somebody in a deadly situation. When driving and someone calls another person, the driver could begin looking for their phone, when this happens, the driver's eyes will veer away from the road, and so will the vehicle in most cases. Another scenario could be, the driver become so involved in the conversation,...
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...lives, whether for personal use or for work. To me we rely so heavily on the cell phone that it is becoming dangerous. Think to a time when you were driving down the road and came up on a slower vehicle. They were swerving within their lane, couldn’t keep a constant speed and just seemed like they were completely distracted and not paying attention to the road and the seemingly easy task of driving. You want to get by the person but every time an opportunity to do so came into view it would quickly disappear because the other driver would speed up or do something to avert your opportunity. Finally you get your chance and go around the person. You look over in an attempt to quench your curiosity and see the person is talking on their cell phone. It all makes sense now; they are paying more attention to the conversation they have going on than to their driving. Driving is a dangerous activity in itself, but when you add other distractions like talking and or texting on a cell phone, the outcomes can be anything but pleasant and lead to extensive consequences. Drivers are far more distracted while talking on a cell phone than just talking to a passenger in the car. Recently my wife and I were going to a store. I have driven this route several times and knew exactly where to turn, but because of the distraction of talking, I missed my turn. This happened with just a passenger in the car. I can only assume if I had a cell phone up to my ear, or even using a hands free...
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...regarding the use of cell phones while driving be standardized? The use cell phones have spread like wild fire in the last ten years. It has become a part of everyday life for many Americans citizens, and a good number of people depend on them to carry out daily operations. Unfortunately, many accidents have taken place in the ten years due to the use of cell phones while on the road. The leads to believe that if people cannot concentrate on the road while talking or texting on cell phones they should not have a cell phone near them at all while driving. The purpose of this research is to discover if texting while driving is the leading cause of automobile accidents of today. Society does not view texting while driving as a safe practice. There are many articles, news reports, and laws passed on texting while operating a vehicle because of the danger associated with the act. Texting while driving causes numerous of problems such as: distraction from the road, a decrease of attention once he or she turns away from the road in responding to a text, and limiting physical ability because texting requires the use of one or both hands to reply to messages. These are some of the issues researchers investigate in finding a conclusion to if the individuals should or should not text while operating a vehicle. Solving the problem of texting while driving is important to Team A because it will reduce the number of accidents connected to texting while driving. According to Statistics and Facts...
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...I was in a car accident that happened, because the other person was talking on the phone. I know how dangerous calling and driving can be. I was in a car accident that happened, because the other person was talking on the phone. I know how dangerous calling and driving can be. People are putting only their own lives in jeopardy, in their cars when they are texting and driving at the same time, breaking the law, while bringing phones into their cars and missing the beautiful scenery outside of their windows. Cell phones should be used while people are driving. Furthermore, while this claim seems initially plausible, it doesn't realize that many key points are left out. Cell Phones should not be used while people are driving. People have more...
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...Distracted Driving Sometimes in life “sorry” can become a magic word and fix everything, then there are times that saying “sorry” undoes nothing. Will saying “sorry” help when you crash your parent’s car, because you are too busy looking at your phone? What about when you kill someone’s child because you’re too busy talking to your friend and run a stop light? Will you say “sorry” to the kid’s parents and expect everything to be okay? Saying “sorry” cannot begin to fix some things and preventing those from happening by acting responsibly in the first place is the best you can do. I like the introduction technique with the hypothetical questions. However, you now need to transition into your thesis or central claim, and that central claim needs to come here, at the end of the intro paragraph. Ninety percent of car accidents are caused by human error – driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, speeding recklessly, changing lanes without signaling, passing through red lines, and probably most known of all: distracted driving OK, first of all, don’t begin body paragraphs with statistics. Rarely should you do this. Instead, remember that I want your body paragraphs to begins with subclaims. Secondly, where did you get this statistic? This is not a research paper (you’ll be taught proper research in Composition II). For now, we want you to avoid research sources except your interviews. . Distracted Driving is dangerous and can kill you and those people around you.—THIS...
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...fully visible, observers must be able to readily identify the object if they consciously perceive it, and the event must be unexpected. Talking on a cell phone is a great example of how inattentional blindness can be produced. For example, if I were engaging in a conversation on my cell phone while driving my car, I wouldn’t be fully paying attention to the road. My conversation would be distracting me from having a clear mind on the road and therefor I would be blind to certain (or many) stimuli I pass by or come across. For example, while driving and talking on my phone, I may pass a bicyclist and not even be aware of him or her, because the distraction of my phone conversation has made me create an inattentional blindness to the event. David L. Strayer and Frank A. Drew’s conducted a research study of how the effects of driving a car while talking on a cell phone can induce driving distractions and cause inattention blindness to the event. The researchers stated in their article on page 128 “The objective of this article is to muster evidence in support of the hypothesis that cell- phone conversations impair driving by inducing a form of inattention blindness in which drivers fail to see objects in their driving environment when they are talking on a cell phone.” This study conducted four studies in which each driver used a computerized driving simulator that incorporates vehicle- dynamics, traffic-scenario, and road-surface software that provided realistic scenes and traffic...
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...Cell Phone Use While Driving The new technology of cell phones has helped advance the world in which we live. There are over 100 million people in the United States that have and use cell phones. Driver distraction due to cell phone usage is a plague that is causing more and more car accidents every year. People quickly forget that driving is a privilege and not a right. What are different states doing about it? Should it be a concern of ours? Did you know that car crashes are the leading cause of death in the U.S.? The statistics of car accidents due to cell phone usage is a hot topic for lawmakers, cell phone manufacturers, and concerned citizens. A study by the National Safety Council found that 8 out of 10 people use their cell phones while driving and that 1 out of 5 text while driving. Cell phones are a factor in six percent of all car crashes which equates to 636,000 crashes, 330,000 injuries, 12,000 serious injuries and 2,600 deaths. These are shocking statistics that easily can be prevented by refusing to use your phone while driving. Research done by the Iowa Civic Analysis Network said, “National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that distracted driving contributes to 25% of all police-reported traffic accidents. The most common distraction is cell phone use, which increases the likelihood of an accident by approximately 300%.” One of our problems as Americans is that we like to multi-task. On average Americans spend twenty five minutes...
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...phone features dialing, listening, and talking and only had a talk time of 35 minutes that took 10 hours to charge. Although the “DynaTAC” was introduced in 1973, it was not put on the market until 1983.The cost of this cellular was $3,500. Today’s cell phones are much smaller and most of them weigh less than three ounces. They have a variety of features. To name a few; built in cameras, video capturing, text messaging, touch screens, and mobile web for less than a fraction of the cost of the “DynaTAC”. The price of cell phones today can run anywhere from $50 to $600. Studies done by Davis, Payne, and Mozee (2010) “Cell phones are now widespread, with more than 255 million wireless subscribers in the United States, comprising 84% of the population. In 2007, cell phone users spent 2.1 trillion minutes talking on cell phones and transmitted 363 billion SMS (“text messages”) over the course of the year.” With so many people using cell phones one can only imagine how many people drive while using their cell phones. Therefore, is it dangerous to drive and use cell phones? Should there be stricter laws banning or putting restrictions on the use of cellular phones while driving? And, are restrictions necessary in order to help save lives? Often people don’t feel that their behavior has an effect on the lives of others. This paper will inform and educate people on the dangers of talking and or texting on a cell phone while driving an automobile. It also point out why legislatures...
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...now able to take your cell phone any and everywhere. Which is a convenient for us all, but talking on your phone while driving, can cause more problems than you may think. We have all been driving down the street, highway or wherever and encounter that driver that is just driving slowly. We say to ourselves, “What are they doing?” When you go to pass them, you see their talking on their cell phones. It happens all the time, but people fail to realize that talking on your cell phone is a distraction. When driving, you need all of your attention to be on road and other drivers. When you’re on your cell phone you can miss your turn, the exit your suppose to get off on or even fail to see the car in front of you put on brakes. Driving and talking on your cell phone is a dangerous combination. For example, I remember me and my friend were taking a trip out of town. We both had our children with us, and driving down Highway 95. When all of a sudden I hear the roar of a motor and out of nowhere comes flying this yellow mustang. It sideswiped us, sending us crashing into the side rail. As I’m looking out the window, I see the mustang flip over three times, right in front of us. We all were scared to death! Then crawling out of the mustang, comes a young girl, upset about her car. We were all fine and the other driver as well, but when the police told us that the young girl stated she was talking on her cell phone at the time of the accident, I was shocked! We all love the convenient...
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...FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--Talking on a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk, new federally funded research shows, and it doesn't matter whether you use a hands-free model or hold the phone up to your ear during the conversation. The study, by University of Utah researchers, adds to a growing body of evidence that conversing by phone while behind the wheel can be hazardous. "We found that when people talk on a cell phone they are as impaired as they are when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit (of 0.08). It was a surprise to us," said Frank Drews, one of the Utah researchers who has published earlier studies showing drivers on the phone are at higher risk of accidents. The peer-reviewed study is being published Friday in the quarterly Human Factors, the journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, which promotes the study of how humans, machines and other devices interact most optimally. The study was funded by a $25,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, which is interested in impaired attention in pilots, and by the researchers. Drews and co-author David Strayer said lawmakers might want to use the findings to consider outlawing cell phone use while driving. The cell phone industry has issued guidelines for drivers using the phones but maintains under certain conditions it is safe to talk and drive. Among the guidelines: place calls only when not moving, use a hands-free device...
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...Cell Phone use While Driving In today society we as people use cell phone for communicate. They play an important role in communicating in our modern society. Even though a cell phone is the most convenient and fast way for getting in touch with people, they should not be used while operating a vehicle. Cell phone use while driving has dramatically increased over the past years in the U.S., and studies show that the risk of having an automobile accident or near accident significantly increases when a person is talking on their cell phone. Although, not everybody who uses their cell phone while driving has been or will be in an accident, but an alarming number of people who were involved in automobile accidents have been reported to have been using a cell phone while driving. Because of the increased number of traffic accidents caused by cell phones, it can be show that cell phone use should be banned while driving do to the risk of getting a ticket, people get distracted while they are texting and dialing a phone number and maybe hands free headset should be banned as well. Individual that uses their phone while driving is taking the risk of getting a ticket or even an accident. It’s easy to get distracted while driving, but don’t the reason you get distracted is because you are on your cell phone. People who look away from the road while because they are looking for their phone or while they texting and evening dial the number. When you are messing with your...
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...can make driving conditions more dangerous for everyone on the road. By knowing that driving while talking on a cell phone decreases driving performance, drivers hopefully will avoid using their cell phones until they have reached their destination. The end result of this will end up making the roads safer for everyone. Also, government officials can make laws that uphold drivers to certain standards, to keep the roads safe. For instance, there is already a law that prohibits drivers that are under 18 from talking on their cell-phone, however, it is legal for the majority of drivers to talk on their cell phones. Statistics and findings from these studies, can in turn persuade government officials into changing the laws to improve safety. These results also relate to what I’ve learned from my understanding of psychology. While talking on a cell-phone, a driver may experience a decrease in their cognitive ability to drive because they are distracted. In class, we learned about two parts of selective attention. The first part is Inattentional...
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... I am here today to persuade you to ban the using of your cell phone while you are driving. I will give you some statistics that involves the using of your cell phone while you are driving whether it is talking or texting. In today’s world cell phones have become an important part in our lives. How many of you here today own a cell phone? How many of you have used your cell phone while you are driving? Please be honest and let me see a show of hands. As you can see pretty much everybody here is guilty. I myself am guilty of driving while talking and texting. As soon as our phone rings or beeps for a text message, we reach for our phone to answer. There is only one good thing about a cell phone and that is no matter where you are at you can always keep in contact with others. The using of our cell phone while we are driving has become such a distraction that it has become very dangerous. (2010, NHTSA) It is so dangerous that cell phone usage has been compared to drunk driving or driving under the influence of drugs. (2012, NHTSA) We all need to stop using our cell phones while we are driving. Accidents, injuries, and even death have increased tremendously. (2010, NHTSA) People are talking and texting on their cell phones and not paying attention to the road. We all need to support the banning of cell phone use and make the decision to put down our cell phone or just turn it off while you are driving. At the present time there are only ten states and also the District...
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...Bennett Tuesday, December 8th Distracted Driving You feel the buzzing in your pocket and pull out your cell phone to respond to the text. While looking down, you run into a few people. After a few quick apologies, you continue on your way. You are talking on your phone in the hallway, you bump into something and start saying “Sorry” but it happens to be a trash can. Something catches your eye on a shelf at the grocery store and you run into someone. All you have to give is a few more quick apologies. Sometimes in life, “sorry” acts as a magic word and can mend everything, and then there other times, “sorry” undoes nothing. Will “sorry” help when you crash your parents’ car because you needed to respond to a text message? What about when you kill someone’s child because you had a conversation going on the phone and ran a stop sign? Will you say “sorry” to that kid’s parents and expect things to get better? And if you had an accident because of the distraction of talking to your friend in the passenger seat, what would you say to her if you got to see her again? “Sorry you had to go to my funeral”? “I apologize for making you live with that horrible memory for the rest of your life”? “Sorry cannot begin to fix some things and preventing those things from happening by acting responsibly is the best you can do. People should not drive when talking to a passenger, using a cell phone or when they have distractions of any kind. Talking to a passenger can immensely distract drivers...
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