Texting While Driving

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    Why Banning the Use of Cell Phones While Driving Should Be Mandatory Nationwide.

    It is dangerous both through anecdotal and hard scientific fact. The distraction of texting, twitting and answering a call is the main cause of accident on the road. Be responsible for someone’s life, put down the phone Introduction The weight of scientific evidence to date suggests that use of cellphone while driving does create a safety risk. Excess use of the cellphone can cause accidents because the driver might run through a stoplight and into oncoming vehicles, knock down pedestrians and or

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    Cell Phone

    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

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    Texting Vs Multitasking

    Position paper Essay Cell Phone Multitasking Versus Loss of Self Being The use of technology nowadays as texting and cell phones have become an important every day tools that many teenagers can’t live without it, to an extent that it controls people lives greatly. There are many needs regarding using cell phone and texting. One of the most important issues is its role in safety as people are not worried when being lost. Moreover it enables users to stay connected with family, colleagues

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    Persuasive Essay: Driving With A Distraction

    Driving with a Distraction The cause of 1.6 million crashes and three hundred and thirty thousand injuries occur each year. No, this is not due to driving under intoxication or even driving while fatigued or unrested, but by what most of us would not see as being so fatal; texting while driving. For a long time, it was said to be “normal” to use a phone no matter if you are driving or just walking past cars; however, eleven teens die each day and a million people die each year due to texting and

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    It Can Wait: No Post Is Worth A Life

    awareness to situations that can have a huge impact on our life. Yet, they are different in many ways such as the situation, target audience and the length of effect. The first ad that caught my attention was a commercial about the effects of texting and driving. The “AT&T TV Commercial, 'It Can Wait: No Post is Worth a Life” was about Two cars getting into a terrifying accident when one swerves into the other lane. The scene freezes right after the collision then started to reverse. It showed everybody

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    Texting and Driving

    does not look like the heavy traffic is going to move too fast while at the same time knowing it will only take a few seconds to respond to the text message, they do. Before a person realizes what is going on, the car in front of them stops too fast causing an accident. There should be more done about texting while behind the wheel because it is very dangerous, texting is known to cause accidents even killing people, and texting is known to distract other drivers. A study was done by

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    Distracted Driving Research Paper

    around 6 out of 10 teen crashes(Green, 2015). What really is “distracted driving”? Distracted driving is the practice of driving a motor vehicle while engaged in other activities;usually one that involves the use of a smartphone. or other devices(Google definition). Which, according from the AAA, says accounts for 25% to 50% of all accidents. People could be distracted when texting a friend, or even reading a message. Driving carelessly can hurt the driver, other drivers and the family and friends

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    Bad Correlation Between Cellphone and Driving

    The bad correlation between any cell phone use and driving Texting, making phone calls and any types of cell phone use while driving might be the most dangerous combination that least people could imagine. Firstly, my own personal experience suggests that texting while driving can easily put your and other people surrounding us on danger. I nearly crashed a motorcyclist while sending a message through a phone, fortunately my younger sister was there to remind me that there was an intersection

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    Civic Engagement Project

    Driving and Mobile Phones 2 In the early 1900's mobile phones were introduced. As time went on mobile phones became apart of people daily lives. Today, most people aren’t able to function without their phones. Whatever you personal preference is your mobile phone can do it. Mobile companies are in a constant battle to offer more services for less and the phone are getting smaller, faster, and better quality. These services are a strong competitor for land line companies. In fact

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    Working on It

    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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