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The essay, Cellphones by Rex Murphy is an informal persuasive essay on the topic of cell phones and how distracting they are. The essay is a cause and effect essay that implicitly conveys the thesis, arguing that cell phones are distracting and inhibit driving. The writer attempts to use humour mixed with a very negative tone to raise awareness among Toronto citizens of the dangers of cell phones, following the movement that calls for cell phones to be banned in cars in Toronto. Although distracted driving is a very serious issue, the writer failed to write an objective, relevant and valid essay that is effective in convincing people.

Distracted driving is becoming the one of the highest causes of fatal accidents in youth. People are becoming more and more dependent on their mobile phones due to the economic and social benefits they provide. With advancement of technology and the more widespread use of smartphones distracted driving is become more dangerous than driving impaired. Driving itself needs full focus and attention with new technologies more focused on making mobile phones more easily compatible with cars it has become increasingly difficult to eliminate the problem cell phones and mobile phones cause when linked to each other. Studies show those using mobile devices while driving are 4-6 times more likely to get into a accident, With the risk so high many cell phone use while driving has been banned in many different countries around the world(fatal distractions). The second alternative is hands-free devices allowing drivers to accept calls, compile and send text messages with ought the use of hands, but using a mobile phone whether it be hands-free or not still hinders performance and deviates the focus of the driver. Car companies have recently countered this issue by implementing new technology in vehicles. For instance, cars now come equipped with built in blue tooth and exceptional pairing applications. This technology leads to inconclusive results of using a hand-held device.

Every day, a multitude of people are having children; meaning that each day an abundance of future consumers are being born. Figuratively and literally speaking, smart phones are slowly going to take over the generations to come. The smart phone users are starting younger and younger every year. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people this day in age own a smart phone; many of those ‘people’ include children. We can only expect these children to grow up attached to these phones as we are now, which means that the roads will only get more

In a society where everybody uses a cell phone day and night; distracted driving is becoming an increasingly prominent problem. Affecting teens and adults, distracted driving lowers everybody’s ability to drive significantly. Surprisingly, teens are affected the most compared to the rest of society through a shorter attention span and an emotional attachment to their phones. Although many believe that there has been technology to aid teen drivers in avoiding phone usage while driving, this technology doesn’t allow the many distractions of a phones, eating, and utilizing hands free devices in the car to dissipate.

Citizens that live in middle and upper-class communities are apart of the main percentage of people that use vehicles due to vehicles playing a major role in human life. However, many countries are recognizing the detrimental effects that car usage has on society and the environment. Lowering the high percentage of citizens that rely on vehicles can lower environmental concerns, improve living conditions in high populated areas, and developing a more dynamic population. The limitations of car usage would obtain numerous benefits for the environment. The article “In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars” by Elisabeth Rosenthal states that “70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars...

Access to technology in cars offers its benefits, instances where people misuse this pleasure and end up harming themselves or others. People who use technology in their cars but utilize it under control, better off than people addicted to technology and get distracted. Mangu-Ward, one of the debaters, gave us an example of how people always click “No” on the “Are you 18?” queries. Which alludes the point that we expect people to answer “I am not the driver”, while driving just to access certain applications. This would not just end up as a concern about the drivers but also about the lives of the people on the road with them.

The idea of the car being the ultimate expression of individuality with odds that concept of being a passenger in your own car. Ride-sharing services and disruptive business models like Uber have continued to gain ground on the traditional car ownership. Cars can pick you up, drop you off and then proceed to the next client, much like a taxi service at a fraction of the cost. In a densely populated city, this makes perfect sense. It could possibly develop secondary industries based on fleet management. The traditional concept of a personal vehicle will continue to evolve, taking on more tasks from the driver or even from controlled sketches of the highway. Driver fatigue may actually become more of an issue during this evolution where driver

Schoettle and Sivak (2015) presented an analysis of the potential for reduced vehicle ownership within households based on sharing of completely self-driving vehicles that employ a “return-to home” mode, acting as a form of shared family or household vehicle. An examination of the latest U.S. National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data shows a general lack of trip overlap between drivers within a majority of households, opening up the possibility for a significant reduction in average vehicle ownership per household based on vehicle sharing. This reduction in ownership and an accompanying shift to vehicle sharing within each household, in the most extreme hypothetical scenario, could reduce average ownership rates by 43%, from 2.1 to 1.2 vehicles

Imagine if you could ride safely regardless of your driving skill, and having the peace of mind that your loved ones are as safe as they could possibly be wherever their destination may take them. This is the purpose that Google and many other car manufacturers, like Toyota for instance; pursue. Despite this ambition, the concept carries a shallow history and as such, the technology behind it is in its infancy. As a result, public opinion is strongly hesitant in regards to allowing these vehicles to share our roads. With our movement, we hope that we can persuade legislation , we could see a reduction in the number of traffic accidents, traffic flow will be far easier to manage, and the money we could be potentially saving

Even though we have fast forward 13 years, this study is still reflected in today’s time. This study is still prevalent in my own life. As a relatively new and under experienced driver, this study expresses to me that, even if I am using a hands-free cell phone, I am still creating a dangerous distraction to others and myself. The use of cell phones while driving is becoming ever-so common among all current drivers. Every day, new and innovative ways to talk, text, and even search the web on cell phones while driving are being introduced. Instead of directly conducting these tasks through the phone, our population is able to dictate into the automobile’s microphone what song to play, what directions to give them while driving, and list the nearest restaurants. This creates more of a distraction than ever to drivers whose concentration should remain solely on the road. With the advertisements in the media presently, it reminds me that any text, phone call, or email can wait is not worth my life or the innocent lives of

Cellular phones have become widely and easily available since the mid -1980s and their use has increased amongst the most emerging countries since then. Due to high-tech expansions, innumerable changes have been done on the mobile phone devices; therefore improving its efficiency. There are 6 billion people throughout the world whom have access to a cellular phone, whether it is for personal use or business. The average American spends 619 minutes a month on a cellular phone (Blumenstock, Eagle, 2012, p.1). The upsurge in the use of handheld mobile phones has mostly stemmed from the need to take care of personal business transaction while driving. We as people have a narrow capacity when it comes

With the mobile device’s limitations in their functional and computing power, that will result in a smaller screen in order to display the mobile device’s interface, and Smartphones will fall into the category of mobile devices. Anthony Wasserman (2010) discusses user interface design on mobile applications in his paper as, “With the challenge of making the best possible use of limited screen space, user interface design takes on greater importance than ever.”(Page 399) This is an important idea to be taken into account when the car checker application is in development, even in its prototyping stages. Wasserman also discusses the importance of user interface design in the mobile application and compares it to a web application as, “Mobile users are often seeking to quickly complete a simple task, and can’t take advantage of the full range of functionality provided by a traditional Web application.”(2010, Page 399). Mobile applications, especially the car checker Smartphone application, must be designed in a way that it accommodates the needs of the users who are using the application, and it must be done with limited functionality and a limited screen for the user interface to fit into a user’s Smartphone. The choice of a prototyping tool must take into account that the Car Checker Android application will

Smartphones have become part of life for many people across the world. Khan, Abid, Muntaha, and Jamal (2016) assert that in a country where 90% owns phones, approximately 64% have smartphones. The majority of the Smartphone owners are people who range between 18-29 years compared to people between 30-49 years old then 50-64 in descending order (Khan et al., 2016). The few percentage of the older group who has Smartphones finds it difficult to use and maintain. This is because of the multiple app available on them. The movable device is liked by the young age people, because they use it for learning, listening to music, and share files. On education level, approximately 87% of people who have gone to high school and above are likely to have Smartphones (Kang, Hur, & Son, 2014). The

With just a push of a button, we enter the world, a utopian ecosystem, and, with the slightest touch, it serves us information from thousands of miles away. We live in a smartphone culture wherein people consume information quite drastically different from anterior cultures, especially in terms of accessibility and quality of life. As a software engineer specializing in mobile application development, I am well aware of this difference. Hence, I wish to change as many lives as possible by designing innovative solutions to real-world problems. In the last three years, I have been fortunate enough to reach more than a hundred thousand people through my mobile applications, and I aspire to continue the same path and broaden my horizons in the

With the growing speed of technological advancement, smartphones have become an essential component of our daily performances. They represent a whole new generation, their appearances turned the technological industry’s history to a complete new page. Smartphones today can do almost everything. While the millennials are intensely enjoying and benefitting from smartphones, the older generations are overweighting the disadvantages. Lately, there are much controversy criticizing the downside of technology. However, the unique combination of helpful features in smartphones make them outweighed all the disavantages, and extremely efficient to help every age group.