Fatal Distractions: Text Messaging and Talking While Driving

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Although text messaging is considered the most dangerous effect when driving in an automobile, but it’s negative effects is nothing like when talking on a cellular phone. Research shows that text messaging and talking while driving is dangerous because cell phone leads to accidents on roadways. Most people would argue that text messaging is more dangerous than talking on a cell phone, which I would agree, but not fully. If anyone was to ask the question “Which is more dangerous, Texting while driving or Talking while driving? “ The person would probably answer with text messaging while driving because the person can simply compare the two by viewing text messaging while driving as looking away and viewing talking while driving as still gazing at the road. However, this may be the right way to go about answering the question, but it's the wrong way, because the person is just answering a question base on their view and not with knowledge about the intended question. Usually people answer questions based on how they view things, which is wrong. Say if a person were to take a test and had some knowledge on a topic, but not enough knowledge to answer the question, so the person second option will be to view the question in a different way to come up with an answer, this is how our minds work when we don’t have the information to a question, we view things in different types of question to try to make up the right answer, which sometimes work. In this case the person would be wrong to answer with text messaging while driving is more dangerous, this answer would be wrong because I believe conversing is more dangerous because I done the research and have obtained the knowledge to prove that texting while driving is less dangerou...

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