...instance; texting while driving is most definitely a distractions from the road. Texting while driving, driving under the influence, and poor maneuvering are three main causes of why accidents occur nowadays. Concentrating on the road and paying attention to the surroundings is very important when driving. Leaving any of the two out would most likely cause a car crash no matter how big or small, it is just not worth the risk. Paying attention while driving just for a couple of minutes or hours until arriving at the given destination is sure to be worth living. Not concentrating on the road and to the surroundings are two reasons why accidents occur. Anything could happen within a blink of an eye, saving a life or even saving the drivers themselves is possible just by concentrating on the road. Always expect the unexpected and be ready when anything unexpected happens, that is very important while driving....
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...carefree juvenile dodging and weaving between dumpsters and beer bottles, all the while trying to stay in front of the car behind him. As a text pops up on his phone he glances sideways and reaches for his device, only to look up and scream in terror as he pulls violently on the steering wheel, but is unable to steer away from the painted brick wall in front of him. Like countless adolescents, this boy was careless and did not know the consequences of his actions. Most teenagers are careless when they race for the story, text and drive, and watch television that portrays popularity as disobedience. One way teenagers show carelessness is when they race for the story. Kids love to be first; it is in their nature. For example, in any school or sport competition, we all love to be first or be the first to try out a new toy for two reasons: the story (be the first to tell everyone what happened) and the hope of a prize. In doing this, all knowledge of right and wrong is thrown out the window and all rational thought process goes to winning, which can lead to failure, physical and/or mental injury, a loss of friends, and more. Another way adolescents exhibit carelessness is when they text and drive....
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...accidents while driving. Most of these accidents are caused by distractions, one of the most dangerous distractions are texting while driving. Many people get injured or even killed because the driver has to answer one text. States try to fine people or imprison them just to make sure those drivers don’t do it again, but they haven’t made it illegal. In order to keep the driver, passenger or pedestrian safe, it is better to make it illegal. Texting while driving is a huge reason why there so many accidents on the road. “Texting messaging creates a crash risk of 23 times worse than driving while not being distracted” (The Dangers of Texting while Driving). This risk is big, but that's just half of it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration filed that in 2012 most distractions while driving was 18 percent of fatal crashes, wounding 421,000 people and killing 3,328 others (The Dangers of Texting while Driving). Those distractions were because of cell phone use. It also says a simple text like “I love you” can be the cause of a fatal accident (46 Important Texting while Driving Fatalities Statics). These statements support why texting while driving is so dangerous....
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...Texting while driving is a huge problem that needs to be fixed. At least, twenty-three percent of car accidents involve a cell phone. That’s one point three million crashes in which many people die. When someone is on their phone while driving it is very easy to stray over the line without even realizing what is happening. “Stop the texts. Stop the wrecks.”-Unknown If you are traveling at fifty-five miles per hour then in five seconds you will have traveled the length of a football field. When you look down at your phone for just five seconds while driving you could cause a crash, just because you weren’t looking where you’re going. Thirteen percent of drivers ages eighteen to twenty admitted to texting or talking on the phone while driving...
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...Numerous accidents involve people getting distracted by their smartphones. Despite being aware of the danger of their actions they still won't take time to consider leaving their phone to concentrate on the road. In countless situations I have seen people texting,making a call,or simply using their smartphone to select a music. All of these are causes of vehicle accidents.Accidents are dangerous not only because it can cost your life but it can cost someone else life. In order to prevent a tragic it is important to take the"It can wait pledge". Texting while driving is one of the causes of vehicle accidents.It has been said that it only takes a few seconds off the road for an accident to occur. For instance when you simply stop at a traffic...
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...In the year 2009 Americans sent and estimated 1.5 trillion text messages. ('Texting while driving"1) That’s an average of 13 text a day for every woman and child. Texting while driving is a serious problem in society, however there are some potential solutions. Texting while driving is a problem in society for several reasons. First there is no easy way to enforce the laws on cellphones. Critics of texting while driving bans maintain that such laws are inherently pointless. ("texting while driving"2) Second, people are spending to much time on their phones while driving. It takes about 5 seconds to travel across a football field going highway speeds. ("texting while driving"2) Finally, 87% of united state drivers consider driving to be a...
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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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...In the modern world, the use of technology plays an important role. One of the most popular applications is the cellphone. The cellphone is a potential hand-held device for each individual. However, along with a lot of positive aspects, the cellphone still has some negative aspects reached to consider should or not using cellphone. Using cell phones can cause serious problems like health hazards, accidents from texting or talking while driving and linguistic ruin from texting messages. This research paper is divided into four sections. In the first section, the paper will discuss the popularity of using cell phones in the world and the consequences of increasing the use of cellphones. In the second section, this research paper will survey the health hazards caused by using cellphones in terms of time and age. These health hazards include brain tumors and male infertility. The next section will discuss about texting or chatting on cellphone while driving and the potential consequences. The last section will offer point of view about the abuse of abbreviations in texting language by teenagers. In recent years, cellphones became more and more popular in the world because of the quick development of technology and science. Mobile phones are considered as new and important parts of our bodies. Too many people using cellphones means the growth of base-stations more quickly and seriously. About 5.9 billion cellphones are in use in 2011 (“Key Global Telecom Indicators for the World...
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...Rough Draft Texting while driving.Texting while driving has caused many people on their phones and cause accidents. We shouldn’t text while driving. It will prevent people from getting into car accidents, and less damage to other things.I found this on my Argument Writing. I chose this because it has to so with how many people are their phones and just forget that they are driving and have to leave the phone in order not to get into any car crashes. Phones should not be permitted while people are driving. On one of my websites (advantage tech). Too many people have their phones everywhere they go, not that it’s bad or anything but we do need to get off of them a certain amount of time and start to do other necessary things instead of being on the phones. In conclusion, This is what I think of when it comes to car accident and texting while driving.All of us people love our phones and always want to have them everywhere we go and that can be a problem sometimes....
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...Driving While Intexicatied: The Dangers of Texting and Driving Have you ever been driving down the road and the car in front of you is swerving all over the road? You then become worried and you proceed to switch lanes to ensure your safety, and as you approach the car, you see that the driver is face down in their cellphone, and because of the size of phones these days, you realized that they almost cause an accident for Facebook? Really, Facebook? What happens when your friend comes to pick you up and as you guys head out for a night on the town, your friend is all consumed with texting in the middle of driving, and she inadvertently veers over into the next lane cutting a vehicle almost causing a collision? Your life could have been lost in the blink of an eye, all because of that darn cellphone. As you continue to read this paper, it will show you that texting while driving is just as dangerous and driving while under the influence of alcohol. Cellphones have been around for centuries. The modern cellphone has only had the capability for texting since 1997 when Nokia introduced the 9000i with a full QWERTY keyboard (A Brief History of Text Messaging, 2015). Since its time, the cellphone has become interactive; we now have the luxury of not even needing a personal computer, because cellphones have evolved into just that a fully functional complete communication device. Cellphones are a necessity in life and it has been proven, but not as it pertains to texting and driving...
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...I. Introduction A. Topic 1) Research question: How effective are devices that disable in-car cellphone messaging in preventing deaths and accidents that are caused by texting and driving? 2) Working thesis: Although devices that disable in-car cellphone messaging can help curb texting and driving incidents, they are still not as effective in preventing accidents and deaths from texting and driving compared to the stricter implementation of rules and regulations that ban texting and driving. 3) Angle: Technology is imperfect in many ways and has many restrictions. It is also still controlled by humans, which means that an oversight on the part of the user can render the devices that prevent in-car cellphone messaging useless. The use of these...
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...Technology, Cell phone, Texting John W. Siggers COM/220 11/21/10 Ruth Cameron In a 1928 film there was a scene where a woman appears to have a cell phone glued to her ear was, ” in fact”, a time traveler, well that is the thinking of some conspiracy logical thinkers. However, this strange scene from a Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film, “The Circus” where a woman seems to be telegraphing or rather phoning who looks as an unscrupulously dressed Martha Stewart, is surely a voyager from the vortex of time and space (Sawyer, 2010). How can one little technological devise come to matter so much. Technology, cell phone and texting, have made a major impact to personal lives both positive and negative, and is preferred over in-person human encounters. History over time is defined by new technology used. In each age a significant impact has attributed to the advancement in the civilization of mankind. Humanity has moved from prehistoric times into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. During modern times, the ages defined as the Industrial Revolution, the age of steam, the steel age, the age of the automobile, and the computer age. With every new age, the people developed and used the new technology could dominate militarily or economically (Technology 2005). Technology has changed the face of modern day civilization. Technology has inundated grade schools colleges and universities...
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... A Report By: Blake Hogan, Emily Gilbert, Megan Leckington, and Chris Morris 1 Abstract: In today’s day and age, most everyone in our society has and uses a cell phone. Most of those who use cell phones also use the SMS text messaging that these phones feature. This study takes a look at some of the effects and potential problems arising from the use of this text messaging. A survey of students and instructors at Lane Community College found that 70% of those surveyed believed that texting had harmful effects on students writing skills. However, studies that were analyzed found that texting is actually beneficial. While 54% of teenagers text others on a daily basis only 33% of teenagers talk to others face-to-face, yet it is too early in research to draw a conclusion on whether texting is harmful to their social skills. Most people know that text messaging while driving is very dangerous, yet the studies analyzed as well as the surveys conducted show that some people are still willing to take that risk. Table of Contents: Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………….1 List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………...1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..2 Methodology……………………………………………………………………………….2 Participants………………………………………………………………………………...2 Results…………………………………………………………………………………..3-18 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………...
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...Criminal Law August 12, 2013 Texting and Driving: It Can Wait Leslee’s life changed forever on March 4th. Leslee Henson and her husband David were involved in a terrible pedestrian-motor accident. They were not driving a car; they were simply going for a walk on a Monday morning in their neighborhood when tragedy struck. The motorist that was guilty of texting, rear ended another vehicle that struck the pedestrians. David shielded his wife, Leslee and took the death for her. In other words, he pushed her out of the way and he died while she survived and has to endure more than 5,000 stitches and staples on her head and neck. Bones in Leslee’s neck and back were broken. She had bleeding in her brain. Her shoulder was injured. The woman that caused the accident was 50 years old, late for work and was texting with her head down. In addition to all these factors, she did not have insurance which leaves Leslee with the medical bills. The car that she rear ended was being driven by a man named Fred, who witnessed David pushing his wife out the way and taking the blow for her. 1 So many individuals’ lives will never be the same because that lady chose to send a text. It has not been revealed what the message entailed but if it was that pertinent, than as a mature person she should have pulled over and taken precautionary measures. David was an amazing father, husband, uncle, and grandfather to 10 darling grand kids. Leslee did go home, two and a half weeks after the accident...
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...Persuasive paper part 3: possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals Marc Fiston Professor: Susan Sgroi English 215 Strayer University September 3rd, 2014 Topic: should regulations 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...
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