anyone who owns or operates a vehicle and feels the need to have internet capability while on the road. This can pose many benefits such as staying connected on long car rides where there may not be any service, but can have some negative effects such as promoting the use of technology while in a car. Now today a big problem is texting and driving/ distracted driving, so how would this new technology affect people while they’re operating a vehicle? An ethical issue with having 4G LTE in a vehicle is
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some of these information technologies. Included will be questions pertaining to what’s the buzz on smart grids, the collaboration and innovation at Procter & Gamble, how much do credit card companies know about you, as well as the perils of texting. Infrastructure and organization is just as important today as it was in the past to run a successful business. However as an added bonus, the advancements in communication technologies have provided companies/organizations with the ability
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The definition of distracted driving is driving while doing another activity that takes your attention away from driving. Distracted driving can increase the chance of a motor vehicle crash. From the articles that I read what stood out most to me is on average about 5 to 6 thousand distracted driver crashes occur every year and I find it interesting that the crash rates have been staying in that 5 to 6 thousand range. My personal belief is that we could be able to bring down the number of crashes
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either by texting, making a call or checking or updating their status on a social network. The impact a cell phone has on youth today can be negative. According to Pamela Gardapee “Cell phones allow kids to text quiz answers, take pictures and videos of problem-solving methods for tests and leave voice messages detailing classroom pop quizzes and other events that otherwise would not spread by word of mouth in one day”. Pamela Gardapee also states “Young cell phone users know how to text while driving
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434. That is 15,219 additional people added to our community in 4 years since the last count in 2010. However, even though more people can be a good thing, it causes more issues. Some weaknesses of traffic is extra people means additional people driving
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deaths more common if people are going 40 mph, and less common if they are going 20 mph. Therefore there is an 80% chance of getting in an accident. After hearing that fact, do you think texting while driving should be illegal? My opinion is that it should because more than 11,000 people have died from texting and walking. In the news there was a 14 and 15 year old that got killed for being on there phones. They reduced speed limit around schools and on highways, and other types of streets to
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even start to feel irrelevant without loads of social media attention. Teens who have trouble connecting face to face may depend on the Internet as a place where they feel understood by their peers and use it as a replacement for social interaction. While they might use social networking sites to connect with others, spending too much
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children all while washing laundry and holding a conversation with my husband! However, this requires my attention to be everywhere and that can cause problems. When something comes up that takes a little more of my attention than I can afford to give, I wind up getting mixed up and put the dish soap in the milk and the chocolate syrup in the dishes. There are times which multitasking can be very helpful, yet there are time in which multitasking can be a bad idea. If someone is driving,
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The Drivers Safe Lock: The Revolutionist of Driving Safety Statistics have shown that the leading cause of car crashes in Texas results either from texting or using a phone while driving. Foundations such as the “Distracted Driving Foundation” have tried to outlaw using a phone while driving; however, they have not been successful in eliminating the problem. Others speculate that physical contact with your phone is only part of the problem and suggest that a distraction like Bluetooth, which allows
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instead of hitting and killing only one pedestrian the driver causes the death of two or more individuals in the same criminal act, the driver could be charged with capital murder. For instance, while driving home the person fails to obey a police officer traffic stop, the driver is under pursuit driving more than 50 mph down two city blocks open only to pedestrians, crashes into a crowd of people causing four deaths and 24 injured. The driver does not stop, slow down, or pull over, instead the driver
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