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
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WHY WE SHOULD BAN PHONE USAGE WHILE DRIVING. A. General Purpose: To convince my audience that using cell phones should be banned while driving. B. Specific Purpose: Inform my audience on the many dangers of using a phone while driving, and persuade them not to use their phone's while driving. C. Central Idea: Using a cell phone always results in a distracted driver. This causes many accidents which also results in death. It's a terrible tragedy that can be so easily avoided with minimal effort
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Are Cell phones dangerous? Tim Lewis ITT Technical Institute EN 1420 November 20, 2014 Mrs. Pultorak Cell phones are supposed to make our lives easier and more convenient. They help us stay in contact with friends, family, and even coworkers. They give us access to a lot of information without having to be sitting at a computer. People have been known to say that there phones are life savers but when used incorrectly they can be life takers and put us in danger. They can distract use while
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to Utah we didn’t know where we could get food. Our coach decided to call her friend who lives in Provo. While she was on the phone a cop drove by and I heard her say “ Ill call you back in a second because there is a cop driving next to me”. Her friends said that it was legal to talk and drive in Utah. So, our coach stayed on the phone. She was so focused on her phone call that she didn’t really pay attention to the road. We saw that the light in front of us was red but our coach wasn’t stopping
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Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals Cell Phones and Driving – A Convenience or a Law Problem or Both? With technology constantly on the rise, a growing problem on the roads today is the use of cell phones while driving. Although cell phones are a great convenience, there are people everywhere that use their cell phones as they are traveling in their vehicles and it is dangerous. Strict laws should be developed and enforced regarding the use of cell phones while driving. Over the years, there
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Title: Why banning the use of cell phones should be mandatory A. To persuade and convince; B. To convince my audience that the use of cell phones while driving is deadly; C. The use of cell phones should be banned while driving because one can’t focus on driving and pay attention to the road at once. I. Introduction A. Texting while driving kills people; B. Texting while driving injures people; C. Texting while driving is a distraction. II. Body A. Texting while driving kills people
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product that strives for safety in automobiles. By keeping lives safe while driving, the product aims to decrease the amount of distraction on the road for everyday drives by locking cell phones once placed in a docking station. Product Description TextControl is a docking system that locks the driver’s cell phone once it is placed into the device, which will prohibit any hand use while driving. The device connects to the automobile’s cigarette lighter and charges the phone while placed in the dock
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Distracted driving: Stay focused when on the road 1. Teddi Dineley Johnson It’s 8 a.m., and you jump in your car to drive to work. You have every intention of driving safely, but within minutes of merging onto the highway you’ve already checked your makeup in the mirror, fiddled with your car’s radio, programmed your GPS for a meeting location, made two calls on your cellphone and sent a text message to your sister. You might not realize it, but you’re a distracted driver. Each time you take your
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Society is becoming more connected to cell phones than ever. It’s true that cell phones make life easier. We are able to check our emails with it, receive phone calls, send text messages, hear music and take photos. However, cell phones and driving have become a massive issue that has redoubled these past years. This issue has been around since cell phones first came out. Everybody has their own point of view; however I believe that using cell phones while driving should not be allowed. My reasons
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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
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