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    technology that has influenced every gesture, words, and action is the mobile phone. The 21st century is the era of cellphones, with this form of technology communication with friends and families has never been easier with the addition of social media, but for every advantage there is always a disadvantage. Among those disadvantages of mobile phones are stress, anxiety, and motor accidents. To illustrate the effect of Mobile Phones, what is technology? Technology is the appliance of scientific information

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    Martin Cooper is known as one of the most innovated people that have changed the world by his creation of the cell phone. The invention originated as a car phone, but Cooper believed a phone should be wireless; making it one of the greatest dangerous weapons for killing people (Molella, 2014). Cell phone use while driving increases the probabilities of car accidents. The component of driving entails the driver to concentrate on the road, time, speed and psychological assignment; any distractions will

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    Cell phone usage while driving is a major source of distraction that could potentially lead to accidents and consequently cause injury or loss of life. Technology has had a way of dealing with distractions by coming up with hands-free cell phones mounted on the dashboards of most vehicles. But, even so, cell phones are still a source of distraction when driving regardless of the fact that they are hand-held or not. Therefore, even the choice for authorities to come up with handheld bans still that

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    INTRODUCTION Mobile phone technology is a technology that a vast majority of us would be familiar with, allowing one to call from almost anywhere, anytime as long as they connected a network. Mobile phones revolutionised the world of personal communication, because of this it is important that the impacts that the technology has had on the community. This essay will trace, in brief, the history of mobile phone technology along with an examination of the social impacts that this technology has

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    mind achieve one goal while driving which is avoiding distractions. The conflict with driving that most experienced and inexperienced drivers have, is the confrontation with inner and outer disturbances in their environment. Throughout the beginnings of the first mobile cars, many diversions from the outside environment were the reasons for many accidents. However, these diversions have changed throughout the involvement and advancement of technology. The term mobile is now fused with transportation

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    1) Discuss the consequences related to distracted walking (10 marks) They walk in front of cars and into street signs, falling off curbs and walking into tree limbs. They are distracted pedestrians who, while texting, talking on the phone, listening to music or even reading, have sustained serious injuries, some of which fatal. A 2007-11 study conducted by the NSW transport, found that over 1 in 7 people killed on the road are pedestrians, with distractions as a contributing factor to deaths for

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    wheel, especially by their mobile phones. Since Americans have busy lives, it has been seen that people do not have the time to get the things done they need to. This then leaves them with their time behind the wheel, where they believe using a mobile device is okay. With more advanced phones and a progression of people engaging in using their mobile devices while driving, the risk of having an accident is

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    “Distracted driving refers to any nondriving activity that takes motorists ' attention away from the safe operation of their vehicles” (Leone). Every time a driver gets in a vehicle and decides to use a cell phone to have a conversation, either talking or texting, they put themselves and others lives in danger. The convenience a cell phone and the capabilities they offer have made them a substantial distraction and a cause of significant source of vehicle accidents and fatalities. There are three

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    Cell phone dependency as a moderator for the relationship between passive cell phone interaction and situation awareness INTRODUCTION Klauer et al. (2014) found a positive correlation between the use of cellular phones (hands free or handheld) and the rate of traffic accidents and distraction. These mobile phones, which are now capable of not only answering calls, but are also capable of playing games, text messaging, browsing the internet, etc. are now attainable for a vast number of individuals

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    States, there are many states and cities that have passed laws where individuals should not use hand-held phones or text while driving, however, none of these laws actually restricts a person from using a phone while driving. The National Safety Council reported that each year an estimated of 1.6 million car crashes are due to people using their cell phones while driving (Texting and Driving Accident Statistics, 2017). One of the biggest reasons that car accidents occurs is because the driver was

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