The Pros And Cons Of Texting And Driving

Phones are a helpful electronic device that allows people to get in contact with family, friends and colleagues at any time. Cell phones allow communication from almost anywhere you are and can help save time by allowing you to use it while doing something else, but what most people aren’t thinking about is how much of a distraction their phones are. People now days are so easily distracted by their phones that accidents happen very often. And it’s not just people walking into others or car crashes, but subway and train accidents also. In California, 2008 a train crashed and killed 25 people due to the engineer being distracted by his cell phone, texting. In 2009 a trolley rear-ended another trolley when the driver was texting. In fact it is

Like many things if you tell someone to not do something then they’ll turn around and do it. “Over the past several years, even while new texting laws are taking effect globally, texting and driving rates have only increased.”(Abolish Driving While Texting Laws for Safety; drive-safely.net) People seem to think that the world will end if they don’t check their phones every five minutes, and if you must check your phone do it at a stop light. Another very efficient way to still answer people back while driving is giving your phone to the passenger or using Bluetooth instead of taking a hand off of the steering wheel or tilting your head to your shoulder. If need be at the next stop light send a quick text to whoever it is telling them that you are driving and will get back to them later. “There aren’t enough police on patrol to catch everyone who’s breaking the law. Taking personal responsibility for our own actions is the key to all of this” says US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. (TWD;

“Teens don’t really have any political power in society. They can’t vote… It’s far easier to blame youth than it is to address the issue holistically” says Koroknay Palicz. (TWD; ic.galegroup.com) No laws about texting and driving were meant to focus on teens, but it’s hard not to when it is a higher number of teens getting distracted on the road by their mobile devices than adults are. In fact it’s common to see teenagers walking around while on their phones not looking anywhere but at their screens. It’s also common for them to bump into things more than adults. Of course this doesn’t mean that adults aren’t doing this; they can do it just as often. However think about how much easier it is to draw an adults attention away from their phones than to grab a teens. Society doesn’t blame teenagers because we can, and research has shown that “teens tend to engage in cell phone tasks much more frequently—and in much more risky situations—than adults. Thus, out studies indicate that teens are four times more likely to get into a related crash or near-crash than their adult counterparts.”(TWD;