Visual Argument: Text and drive The risks of texting while driving are rising, and your life is on the line. Texting while driving is a distraction and not only is your life on the line, but so is someone else’s. The risks of taking your eyes from the road for a split second are dangerous. Due to the many dangers that tag along with a driver’s license, insurance companies and car companies are trying to figure out ways to stop this problem. When the privilege of a license is placed into the hands
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assets, particularly on the road. While Florida does have multiple pieces of legislature restricting technology, phones in particular, none of these seem to be effective. Within the past year nearly 50,000 accidents have occurred as a result of using this technology, some of which leading to injury or death,. Shockingly, this makes Florida the second worst state in the US for distracted driving. Clearly, it seems as if these policies to prevent distracted driving aren’t working and Florida isn’t doing
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PAGE STILL UNER CONSTRUCTION!!! a) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Restricting the Use of Cellular Phones (while operating a CMV/commercial motor vehicle) b) This proposal by the Department of Transportation on the banning of using a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle has completely captured my attention and has cause me much concern and distress. This is due to the fact that, if and when it becomes a law, it will be quite detrimental
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a cell phone while operating a vehicle. More and more accidents occur every day due to a driver becoming distracted while driving when using a cell phone. “The 2014 NSC report says the percent of drivers observed manipulating handheld electronic devices increased from 0.9% in 2010 to 1.3% in 2011.” Likewise, “National data show cell phones were involved in 350 fatal crashes in 2011” ("Cellular Phone Use and Texting While Driving Laws"). This amount of car accidents caused by driving and using a cell
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cell phones be illegal while driving? In today’s current environment there are a host of dangers confronting drivers on the road. As highways and secondary roads become more congested and distractions within ones vehicle grow, the United States has seen an increase in avoidable accidents, included distracted driving. Vehicular accidents happen for a variety of reasons, which can be broken up between avoidable and unavoidable. Among the avoidable accidents, distracted driving due to use of a cellular
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they are aware of the severity of texting and driving, and how dangerous it can become. Automotive industries should be responsible for how vehicles are wired technically when it come to safety for drivers whom constantly talk or text while driving. Car manufactures have become involved with adding blue tooth capabilities, blocking technology to cars, and creating mobile safe guard features that allows the driver ability interact with their cell phone by hand while keeping their eyes on the road. However
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Focus on Driving According to an article by Kiernan Hopkins, “Over 2.5 million people in the U.S. are involved in road accidents each year. The population of the US is just 318.9 million. At this rate, the American people could be extinct in two human lifespans. This is an astounding number of traffic accidents.” This is just one of the astonishing statistics you can find about how severe of an issue distracted driving is in the United States. What is distracted driving you may ask? Distracted driving
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Distracted Driving Driving is a big responsibility on the road ways, “Each year, more than 100,000 crashes result in injury and death involve texting drivers”, (Overton, et al). Distracted driving, such as texting while behind the wheel, is a recurring issue within the United States. Distractions are anything that requires drivers to take their eyes off the road or hands off the wheel. Not everyone drives responsibly, and accidents can happen no matter how experienced the drivers are behind the
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Distracted Driving: It's Time to Get on the Same Page In 2010, 3092 people were killed, and about 416,000 others were injured in vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver in the United States. Of those killed, 408 occurred when at least one of the drivers was using a cell phone, which equates to about thirteen percent (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], 2012, para. 4). Because of this alarming and increasing statistic, I believe there should be standardized regulations
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Distracted Driving There are several ways people are distracted while driving but the most common reason is handheld cellular devices. Cellular telephones have been around for several years now and have evolved so much in the past few. Some of the first cellular phones only had the ability to make phone calls. Modern cell phones are personal computers that a person can hold in his/her hand. A person can read his/her e-mail, surf the web, send text messages, play games, and still make phone
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