Dangers Of Texting And Driving

To investigate the dangers of texting while driving, a true experiment is needed to determine if texting is a cause of traffic accidents. A true experiment is thought to be the most accurate type of experimental research, and it is the only type that can establish a cause and effect relationship. Thus, a true experiment can find if texting is a cause that affects traffic accidents. To begin, the experiment will take place on a major road, located in an urban city because a large number of fatal traffic accidents occur in urban settings, when vehicles are traveling less than thirty miles per hour. Random assignment will be used to select participants, and place them into two equal groups, so the sample size is representative of age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic level. Random assignment helps eliminate bias between tech savvy teenagers and older adults, or the use of technology between different ethnicities, or income levels. The experiment will include a control and experimental group, and the manipulated variable is texting while driving. The control group will be instructed to drive through the mapped out course, without a cell phone present in the car. However, the experimental group will drive through the same course, with cell phones that are receiving text messages. The experimenters will have a camera in the car that helps them collect data from the both groups. Each driver will be evaluated on, the number of times they send a text message, the number of

I have been the single most wanted electronic device since 1986. I make it easy to stay connected at all times with friends, news, and entertainment. I also cause 1.6 million automobile crashes each year. I am the number one gateway to porn, cyberbullying, and social misconduct. I am a phone. Cellular phones can be either distracting or essential. While driving, they could be deadly or navigational; in class, they could be distractions or educational tools; and behaviorally speaking, cell phones have negative impacts on young children.

Did you know every day your life is put at risk because of other’s bad driving habits? Well, when I first got my driver’s license I believed I was prepared to drive, but I was wrong. I still needed to learn about all the hazards around myself. Habits are tough to break when becoming attached, even though various habits are illegal. However, speeding, texting while driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol are a few of the many extremely common habits drivers use daily.

There are many vehicles on the road in America. One of the problems people have in America is texting while driving. Some people have lost a family member that they loved to a text message. Some of the reasons why this is an issue is because people are easily distracted, they can get in a terrible wreck, and they can take someone’s life.

The message I chose to analyze is texting and driving, and the many dangers surrounded by it. I selected this message because people need to become more aware of how serious the issue is and the increasing number of fatalities that are resulting due to texting and driving. Did you know that texting takes your eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds? At 55 mph, that’s like driving the length of an entire football field blindfold (Distraction.Gov). Now just envision that you are driving to the grocery store and you receive a text message from someone. You check the road ahead of you and everything seems to be flowing smoothly so you glance down to reply to the message. Then as you look back up, all of the sudden there is a huge traffic jam but it is too late for you to stop and you smash into the vehicle ahead of you.

Don’t text and drive. Keep your phone out of your hand. There are about 1..3 million crashes involving phones per year. Texting while driving is dangerous because people overestimate their abilities.

Texting while driving should be illegal, it can jeopardize safety precautions on the road. Is it really that important to stay on your phone texting during every hour of the day? Texting when driving can cause accidents that may result into death. Texting while operating a vehicle has caused laws to change, giving out tickets, fines, and even jail time. Ian Mulgrew stated “many accidents are blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage” (Mulgrew, 2011). Technology by the use of a cell phone has caused texting while driving to cause multiple deaths, tickets, and car accidents. A lot of people have a lot going on in their lives and never have time to get the things done. Leaving them to do things on

Texting and driving not only influences the people in the accident, but at the same time, their family and friends moreover. Forty percent of teens in America admit they have been in a moving vehicle where the driver used a cell phone (“The Dangers”). The vehicles colliding is just the beginning of all the misery that comes from this atrocious choice. The victims’ families also have to deal with the greatest tragedy of all, losing a loved one. Just sending one quick message increases the crash risk 23 times than if you were undistracted (“The Dangers”). The optimum method to hinder people from using their phone is to store it in a place where it’s inaccessible. That is just one method, however, there are a few more ways to keep people from

Wouldn’t you agree that texting and driving is a big issue nowadays? Many drivers are so caught up in their phones that they risk their lives and the lives of others just so that they could answer a simple text message. Now that this problem is becoming so big, it should have severe consequences. People who text and drive should get license suspension for six months and get $500 for the first violation and $1000 for the second violation.

Distracted driving alone has claimed around 3,500 lives in the year 2015 (Currin, Andrew). These numbers have increased throughout the last decade causing people to take notice. Texting while driving is the leading cause of distracted driving deaths in the United States. In the last seven years, states across the U.S. have banned texting and driving in efforts to stop fatal accidents that have claimed so many lives. The focus of this is piece is to understand the dangers of texting and driving, the direct impact it has on New Hampshire citizens and the efforts that states across the country are making to prevent these deadly accidents.

Texting while driving has affected millions of people due to distraction. Millions of people have been injured or have died. In a recent article from CNN News it states, “The feature, called "Do Not Disturb While Driving," will be part of Apple's iOS 11, a new version of the operating software for Apple mobile devices. Whenever the phone is connected to a car using either Bluetooth or a cable, or if the car is moving, the phone will withhold any notifications for things like text messages or news updates. If someone does text you while you're driving, the phone can respond with an automatic message telling them you're driving and can't respond just now.” iPhones has created a sound for an alert of text messages to intrigue the mind and force

Texting while driving can be a deadly combination. Everyone knows how dangerous texting while driving is yet many choose to ignore the risks. Not only does texting while driving put drivers at risk, it also puts anyone in the car with them at risk and even those around them in danger. Texting and driving takes the driver’s attention away from the road and what is going on around them. And it only takes a split second for something to go wrong resulting in tragedy.

A study of perceived risk in middle and late age groups with respect to texting and driving

What I have seen over the past 9 years, several drivers texting and driving, in their personal car and even in their tractors/ trailers. They weave all over the road just trying to read their text messages. But as a result as we all know it’s not worth your life for the action of reading the text.

I. ATTENTION getter: Can you remember the last text you sent? Was it important enough for you to risk your life and the life of others on the road with you? The people that have been injured in texting and driving accidents would tell you probably not; and the people that have died in texting and driving accidents wish they were still here to tell you it absolutely was not important enough.