...Argumentative Essay Bailey Tollefson WR097/EL113W 11/26/15 There is a tremendous issue in America with teens driving. A big reason why is because car crashes are, “the number one killer of teens in the United States” (“Safe kids Worldwide,” 2014). Many parents realize the danger that their kids are in once they get their license, and get freaked out. This is because teens are inexperienced, they easily get distracted, and most do not realize the importance of safe driving, and how unsafe driving can affect their lives. Teenagers have little experience once they get their drivers licenses. This is a major problem, because when you are young you feel invincible. This certainly is not the case. In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed, which means that six teenagers died each day (“Get the Facts,” 2013). These crashes were mainly from lack of experience. “The first 500 miles for teenage drivers are the most crucial. During this time, they are 10 times more likely to be in auto crashes than adult drivers” (“Teenage Car Accidents,” 2012). A big concern for driving at night is reduced road visibility. “In 2009, 61 percent of teen crash deaths occurred between 6 P.M, and 6 A.M… this is primarily due to a combination of the visibility challenges caused by dark conditions, and slower response time brought about by fatigue, and a lack of experience driving under such conditions” (Canfield, 2013). Also animals are more active at night, which would lead to an...
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...Argumentative Essay By: Bailey Tollefson Teens Driving There is a tremendous issue in America with teens driving. A big reason why is because car crashes are, “the number one killer of teens in the United States” (“Safe kids Worldwide,” 2014). Many parents realize the danger that their kids are in once they get their license, and get freaked out. This is because teens are inexperienced, they easily get distracted, and most do not realize the importance of safe driving, and how unsafe driving can affect their lives. Teenagers have little experience once they get their drivers licenses. This is a major problem, because when you are young you feel invincible. This certainly is not the case. In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed, which means that six teenagers died each day (“Get the Facts,” 2013). These crashes were mainly from lack of experience. “The first 500 miles for teenage drivers are the most crucial. During this time, they are 10 times more likely to be in auto crashes than adult drivers” (“Teenage Car Accidents,” 2012). A big concern for driving at night is reduced road visibility. “In 2009, 61 percent of teen crash deaths occurred between 6 P.M, and 6 A.M… this is primarily due to a combination of the visibility challenges caused by dark conditions, and slower response time brought about by fatigue, and a lack of experience driving under such conditions” (Canfield, 2013). Also animals are more active at night, which would lead to...
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...Drinking and driving is a problem for teenagers. A lot of people care about this situation going on. Drinking and driving is causing a lot of problems all around the world. Teens car accidents are mostly due to drinking and driving. According to Louise Gerdes at Mothers Against Drunk Driving, teens drinking and driving is the number one most car accidents deaths (Drinking is a serious problem for teens). Teenagers should stop causing this and decrease the number of deaths. Some people say is not a problem because teens won't get in a car accident if they pay attention but it is a problem because 17,970 people were killed in crashes involving alcohol. Drinking and driving increases teens deaths. 16-20 years old are 17 more times...
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...Japan Driving Age BCOM/275 Team B September 17, 2012 Instructor Barbara Schmauder Japan Driving Age The United States of America isn’t the only country who experiences problems with young drivers. Traffic crashes are the single greatest killer of 15-24 year-old in OECD countries, like Japan. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) According to the YOUNG DRIVERS The Road to Safety 2006. The legal driving age in Japan is age 18. The minimum driving age should be 20 in Japan because, among other reasons, they have access to more public transportation. Twenty is the age of adulthood in Japan in which a person can legally vote, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes and can no longer be spared the death penalty. In the U.S. adulthood is considered 18 which is appropriate considering the less intricate transportation systems. The age to operate a vehicle should be greater than the American minimum age simply because they have more transportation available as well as the fact that many of them use bikes as their major form or transportation allowing them to still be independent and responsible to getting to places on time and when they need to be there. Other reasons the age to operate a vehicle should be raised in Japan include certain lifestyle aspects and cultural aspects that differ from those in the United States. Japanese teens spend on average $100 a week on allowances provided by parents, leaving little reason for teens to hold jobs and...
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...Teen Driving: The Dangers are Underrated A good driver concentrates on the road, what is happening around the vehicle, and is alert to the fact that other drivers can and do make mistakes. When teenagers first get their licenses they don’t automatically become an efficient driver. Minors usually rush into getting their licenses because they cannot wait to be amongst the first of their friends to drive a car. Sometimes all the training they received during their permit stage – is forgotten and they sacrifice practice and the understanding of what makes a good driver. According to National Transportation Safety Board statistics, Almost 64,000 youths aged 15 to 20 dies in traffic accidents from 1994 through 2003. Researchers are finding that organized thoughts, weighing consequences and suppressing impulses does not fully develop until the age 25. Teens have a hard time controlling their risky behavior and becoming responsible which is why minors are mostly involved in crashes. Some regulations have been made to help decrease the dangers of teen driving, for example, the Graduated Driver License and the banning of cell phones while driving to help prevent distractions. Even though there are regulations, minors don’t always follow them which is why the dangers of teen driving are underrated. One of the leading dangers with teen driving is the amount of cell phone usage. Teenagers are in the prime of their social life and always have a cell phone within reach. Using a cell phone...
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...Unfortunately that trust is often in many cases. Teen driving while intoxicated is one of the worst causes of deaths, in the young of the community. The causes are many, a parental figure that was not there when the child was younger, in the more formative stages of their life. A bad parental figure, which has shown the young drivers, that while there are rules, they teach that the rules do not apply to everyone. And young adults, who have just entered the college setting. Instead of concentrating on learning, to advance their education, they concentrate on the social aspects of college, fitting in, and trying to be socially acceptable. This has a significant chance to lead to the “rowdier” lifestyle, which can lead to the more socially acceptable, but illegal choices. According to Shelia Sarkar, and Marie Andreas, on a poll done with 1430 teen drivers, 880 of the teen drivers had traffic violations, which included speeding, drag racing, and driving under the influence. Younger drivers are more likely to overestimate their driving skills, especially young male drivers. When a driver overestimates their driving skills, they tend to be more agreeable to the riskier, and even lethal behaviors. Driving while under the influence is one of the more dangerous behaviors at any age, but especially for a teen driver who does not have the experience that an older driver does. It has been proven that those teen drivers, who were exposed to drunk driving, have a much higher chance of actually practicing...
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...Injury Prevention: Motor Vehicle Injuries and Distracted Driving Among Teen Drivers Heather Stockman Waynesburg University Advanced Health Promotions Judith Adams August, 20, 2013 Injury Prevention: Motor Vehicle Injuries and Distracted Driving Among Teen Drivers Injuries are extremely widespread across society today and unintentional injuries remain among the top 15 killers for people of any age. The majority of people just accept these incidents as accidents, acts of fate, or a part of life although most of the events that result in injury, disability, or death are not only predictable but preventable. Beyond their immediate health consequences, injuries have a major impact on the well-being of society by contributing to premature death, disability, increased medical costs, and lost productivity. In addition, the effects of injury affect not only the injured person but also family members, friends, coworkers, and communities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). The Injury and Violence Prevention objectives for 2020 include a wide range of issues that can improve the health of the nation if appropriately addressed. One such objective focuses on motor vehicle crashes that are due to distracted driving. This paper will focus on that initiative. INTRODUCTION Distraction is any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving. There are three main types of distraction. The first is when the driver takes his eyes...
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...With the driving age at 16 there are a lot more accidents. The amount of accidents with teenage drivers is more than triple that of drivers who are older and have had more experience. If the driving age was higher this would lessen the number of accidents more because people would have a better understanding of what they are doing. People should not be able to start drivers Ed until they are 18 or older. This would maximize the understanding of what driving is and would permit people to spend more time learning. At the age of 15 when students are permitted to take drivers Ed and at 16 when they can first obtain a drivers’ license it is too soon. With only a year of practice and with not a lot of understanding about driving it is a main factor in the amount of accidents occurring. If drivers training started at 18 and went on for two years instead of a max of six months and we got our licenses at 20 it would increase understanding and in turn reduce accidents. On Dec. 29, 2005, four teenage boys from Chicago went out for a late-night drive and had a terrible accident. The car spun out of control and struck several objects, including a giant light pole. Two of the boys—a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old—were killed. The driver of the car was just 16. After this tragic accident, thousands of people began asking what could be done to prevent this from happening again. The answer is raising the driving age. That's why legislation has introduced an increase to the driving age in Illinois...
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...Alive at 25 Parent Program Partnering With Your Teen Driver To properly prepare teens to drive, parents must have a clear understanding of the risks they face. That's why “DRIVING POLITE” have developed the Alive at 25 Parent Program. The course identifies those risks, and helps parents reinforce basic driving skills and good decision making to help teens become safe, responsible, and defensive drivers. The course will be provided on Internet also. The program is highly interactive and multimedia rich to provide an engaging experience for the user. About The Course This innovative program gets parents involved in training their teens to drive safely and responsibly by: 1. Encouraging parent/teen partnership throughout the entire process, from learning to drive through independent driving. 2. Offering practical solutions so parents can take responsibility to reduce the unique risks and hazards teen drivers face. 3. Helping parents understand teens' need for defensive driver training. 4. Examining how to approach Driver Licensing Laws, in addition to those related to safety belts, speeding, and alcohol and drugs. 5. Providing a recommended example of an effective Parent/Teen Driver Contract, and discussing the importance of how parents and teens can use it to manage their driving experience. 6. The Resources page provides printable information found in the course that can be retained for future reference. Links to other safety organizations...
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...One of the most common occurrences in a person’s everyday life is driving a vehicle but do you ever take a second to think about what harm you can possibly cause. I am sure at one point or another you have been driving and seen another driver and then asked yourself “what is this person doing. “ At the age of 16 Americans are required to take an exam to show they have the knowledge required to operate a vehicle as well as six months of driving with a guardian. Most see this test as satisfactory but with the driving seen on the roads every day I tend to believe otherwise. No matter the age of the driver there are bad skills being demonstrated whether it be the older gentleman going slow in the fast lane or not using the proper turn signal it would be the young kid who just got their license speeding everywhere they go. It is not everyone who has poor driving skills and for the people who drive safely a switch in how we regulate who is allowed behind the wheel could decide how we look at vehicles from now on. What needs to be changed so that safe driving will be a more frequent occurrence is not the way we issue licenses but how the general population is never re-examined on their driving skills after the age of sixteen. Would you be willing to take a re-examination test of your driving skills knowing that you would be saving lives by creating a safer driving environment? A re-examination of all drivers can make the roads safer for everyone. Currently there is only a re-examination...
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...For many parents having their teens get their license can be the scariest thing when thinking about the safety of your child. Before handing over the keys to the family car make sure you go over the road rules and some key tips that are very valuable to young drivers. Many young teens don’t know the basics of your car like the mechanical function and maintenance. Every teen should know how to change the oil or how to change a flat tire. Before your teen gets into their make sure you go over these key things so if something goes wrong they will know how to deal with the issue. Make your teen aware that driving their car is the first priority. They should not be distracted by texting, talking on the phone, eating, the radio, friends, ext. The motto Drive Now, Talk Later is extremely important to teach your teen. If they must use their phone to text or make a phone call, pullover! Not only are they putting their own lives at risk by being distracted but they also are putting the rest of those on the road in danger. Driving is a huge responsibility and teens need to be aware of the dangers of the road. Keep your teen informed about the teen driving facts to make sure they are the safe and responsible driver that you want them to be. Some facts to share with your teen that drivers from ages 16-19 are more likely to have a fatal car crash than adults. By staying on top of your teen driver and being supportive can help reduce your teens car crash risk...
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...While Driving as a Teen Did you know that in 2013, 3,154 people died while texting and driving? An additional 424,000 people were injured in crashes involving reported distracted drivers (Loftis, 2009). For drivers ages 15-19 involved in fatal crashes, fifteen percent of the distracted drivers reported that they were distracted due to cell phone use (Browning, 2016). In contrast, using your phone while driving is convenient, it helps to avoid lengthy phone conversations, handy in situations such as looking up weather or using the GPS. We live in a society that strives for convince and accessibility and cell phones give us just that. Texting while driving is an unnecessary distraction and does not encourage drivers to care about their...
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...text and drive and prevent accidents.The main issue is that 10% of young adults text and are outside of their lanes. Texting while driving makes you become blind for approximately 5 seconds at a time and it slows your brake reaction by a whole 18%. It has become so common that 14 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have prohibited drivers from using handheld devices while driving for the protection of the people.Due to people being distracted while driving, more than nine people are killed and more than 1,153 are injured in crashes almost each day.Despite the addiction most teens have to their phones, a cell phone...
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...that even I cannot control. Imagine something so dangerous that it can take away everything and/or everyone you have in mere seconds, regardless of how safe you are. No matter what safety precautions anyone has taken, statistics show that teenagers, more specifically, sixteen year olds, are the most dangerous drivers on the road. Not only are they a danger to themselves, but even more frighteningly, they are a danger everyone around them. Because of this, I believe the driving age limit should be raised to eighteen and sixteen year olds should not be given a “graduated” driver’s license. Driving is a task that requires the utmost attention to detail. Multitasking is perhaps one of the most important things that any driver has to do when he or she gets behind the wheel. You have to pay attention to your speed, other drivers, pedestrians, road conditions, and much more. Because teenagers get distracted so easily, they are often poor at multitasking. This, in addition to the complexities of driving, makes teenagers, specifically sixteen year olds, the most dangerous drivers on the road. In fact, motor vehicle accidents are the number one killer of teenagers, with an estimated 5,000 deaths attributed to it every year. (Schlachtenhaufen, 2008). Even more startling, sixteen year olds have a five to one ratio of being in fatal vehicle crashes when compared to drivers twenty years old or older. In 2003, there were 937 vehicle accidents in which the driver was sixteen years...
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...I will not take any responsibility for damages caused by flashing the BIOS. Use the guide and the BIOS files at your own risk, this will void your warranty. What you need: GPU-Z, Nvflash The following guide is for single GPUs. If you wish to flash multiple cards please do so one at a time or see the Nvflash readme for further instructions on how to use the commands to properly flash multiple card systems. Don't type in the bracket but type in the info in the brackets. The commands are case sensitive and you need to include the spaces, please be accurate. 1. Backup your old BIOS (GPU-Z, BIOS version field, button on the right allows you to save the current bios). Keep the old bios in the event that something happens during the flash. 2. Download the new BIOS you'll be flashing to, it should be a.rom file, otherwise the flash will not work. 3. Browse to your Nvflash folder 4. Transfer the new BIOS file into the Nvflash folder 5. Close all unnecessary programs 6. Shift + right-click the Nvflash folder 7. choose the open in command line option 8. Type in the command: Nvflash --protectoff (case sensitive, please be accurate) 9. Type in the command: Nvflash -4 -5 -6 [yourbiosnamehere].rom 10. If the flash is a cross vendor one you might have to type in y a couple of times when asked to 11. Nvflash will work for a while and close the 2nd command prompt after finishing 12. Reboot 13. Your card should now be flashed, test with Precision...
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