Distracted Driving Distracted driving occurs every day. Not only does it affect the driver operating the vehicle, it also affects the passengers and other pedestrians. Texting, grooming, and changing the radio station, etc. are all very dangerous and can cause accidents. All of the distractions listed previously cause the driver to take his/her eyes off the road and/or hands off the wheel. The opposition might say the state does enough to educate drivers. An example being California banning
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have not yet experienced. In this generation of young drivers, there are too many distractions at the wheel. Some of these distractions include, but are not limited to: cell phone use, loud music playing, eating, smoking and the biggest one of all, having too many peers as passengers. Insufficient amounts of behind-the-wheel experience and the immaturity of young drivers are factors that contribute to unsafe driving. Too many young drivers are involved in serious accidents because of poor decisions
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do a Persuasive speech on texting while driving and i really need some help! I am suppose to have a thesis with three main points and for each of those three main points I need 3 supporting facts. I already wrote this up Thesis Statement. Texting while driving is dangerous because it can not only kill you but also it can kill another person in the same amount of time that it takes to send a text message. The dangers of texting while driving. A- According to Distractions.Gov there
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innovative 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
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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
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leap, there are also several consequences. In Herzog’s film, “From One Second To The Next”, and Paul’s article, “Students can’t resist multitasking…” the consequences are brought to our attention. Paul’s article focused on student life and how technology affects it. Due to the mass production of laptops and iPhones, students tend to be multitasking more than they have ever before. The article consists of several observational studies on multitasking. Researchers would observe lectures and watch over
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Professor March 16, 2015 Research and Writing Should Cell Phones be Ban from Driving or Do Away With? Over the last few years, there has been an up rise in car accidents and the probable cause is the use of cell phones. At one point drunk driving was the biggest cause of car accidents but now cell phone users are at risk as well. In some states across America, a law was made to ban cell phone use while driving but what about the other states. The probability of drivers talking on the cell phone
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continue to rise, and these accidents involve a range of negligent driving behaviours. • People who are sleepy while driving is one of example og car accident there are road conditions that are dangerous even in the dry months, often leading to serious or deadly accidents. In car accident there are 3 main accident reasons behind these auto crashes: speed, impaired driving and distractions. •in weather condition while driving too fast is dangerous. Although heavy rains make it unsafe to travel
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people are driving while distracted. Eating, talking or texting on a mobile phone, making adjustments to the radio, talking with passengers -- all take a driver's focus off of the road. Imagine this, it's a beautiful day for a drive, the sun is out, windows rolled down, the music in on softly, just a perfect day. Then you look down at your cell-phone, just briefly, quick enough to remove your eyes from the road, then you BAM you made an accident!! How many of you have cell phones? How many of
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Connor Arguments & Persuasion 23 February 2013 How Students Feel About Texting And Driving New Jersey has a Cell Phone & Driving law that affects all of its citizens. This law attempts to make the road a safer place, so it affects the lives of pedestrians and those who don’t own cell phones too, because everyone is in danger when a driver isn’t paying attention. In my Argument and Persuasion course, we are discussing this Cell Phone & Driving law, causing the class to take different sides
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