Topic: Texting while driving is dangerous Hook: Did you know that texting while driving is now one of the most popular distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road? Link to audience: Imagine that someone in your family, your mom, dad, or sibling were to be killed by a driver who was sending a text message. Was that text worth losing someone you love? Thesis statement: Today I will persuade you into thinking that texting while driving is too dangerous. Body Texting while driving kills
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Texting and Driving: Two Technologies Collide Harry Williams Jr ITT Technical Institute Abstract Texting and driving has become a serious problem in recent years. In 2011, at least 23% of auto collisions involved cellphones. The death rate caused be texting and driving is higher than that of drinking and driving. The financial burden caused be texting and driving affects everyone from the individuals involved to the public services. Penalties are not severe enough to deter drivers from
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phones while driving causes many of these accidents. In Albuquerque there is a hands free law. We can get fined if we have our cell phone in our hand when we are driving. Even with the law, I still see people with their phone in their hands while driving all of the time. Some people are talking on their phone and other people are texting. In order to save your own life as well as save the lives of other people on the road, it is important that people stop texting while driving. Texting while
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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 1. In 2011, 3,331 people in the US were killed due to texting while driving. (http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/)
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The Dangers of Texting and Driving Drivers should not be able to use their cell phones when driving a motor vehicle because it is dangerous for the driver and others who are driving as well. The use of cell phones takes the driver's attention off the road. They should not be used while driving because it jeopardizes the driver’s life along with pedestrians and others on the road. Texting and driving causes fatal wrecks, is a leading cause of death among teens, and is illegal in most states.
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Inoculation Texting has become such a central point and form of communication in our lives today that we as a society apparently would not know how to communicate without it. While this form of communication can be great in its ability to communicate without speaking, it also has a potentially fatal downside for those who text while driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 3000 people were killed in 2011 because they were distracted while driving (NTSHA, n.d
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The scientific literature on the dangers of driving while sending a text message from a mobile phone, or driving while texting, is limited but growing. A simulation study at the Monash University Accident Research Center provided strong evidence that retrieving and, in particular, sending text messages has a detrimental effect on a number of safety-critical driving measures.[6] Specifically, negative effects were seen in detecting and responding correctly to road signs, detecting hazards, time spent
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technology in wireless communications is presenting a growing concern for distracted driving due to using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. Although distracted driving accidents and fatalities have risen in the last decade, placing a ban on the use of a cell phone or other electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle as some states have will not resolve the issue. In fact a ban on cell phones and driving may very well increase the accident and fatality rate because drivers are now
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This paper will address the crime problem of teenage driving and texting. A brief history and timeline of texting will be examined, followed by the effects of texting on driving and statistics associated to the practice. The teenage invincibility complex will be examined and current policy effectiveness will be reviewed as it relates to criminological theories. The conclusion will provide possible policy solutions utilizing the general deterrence theory. In 1992 Neil Papworth sent the first text
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Criminal Law August 12, 2013 Texting and Driving: It Can Wait Leslee’s life changed forever on March 4th. Leslee Henson and her husband David were involved in a terrible pedestrian-motor accident. They were not driving a car; they were simply going for a walk on a Monday morning in their neighborhood when tragedy struck. The motorist that was guilty of texting, rear ended another vehicle that struck the pedestrians. David shielded his wife, Leslee and took the death for her. In other words
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