The Ban of Cell Phones While Driving Essay

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    How times has there been crashes or wrecks with teens on their phones? Over the past years, parents don’t feel like they are teaching their kids how to drive and get nervous about them driving. I'm going to be talking about how many wrecks happen and how not to deal with it. First, the reason teens are on their cellphones because they want to see social media and want to text friends about what they are doing or want to hang out. One reason is that they see their parents doing it so they think they

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    We currently live in a society where technology has become a necessity, more specifically, cell phones have become essential and people go crazy when they are without this particular device. This obsession with our cellular devices has caused many deaths, affected our form of communication with others, and making us stupider. Driving a vehicle while texting is six times more dangerous than driving while intoxicated according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The federal

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    Introduction Recent laws outlawing texting while driving have become ambiguous, under-inclusive and enforce light punishments that cannot be deterred. These laws also empower the police to carry out warrantless search for the cell phone of the driver. Texting while driving is highly dangerous and people doing so must be punished strictly, license suspensions, interlock devices preventing the usage of cell phones while driving and possible jail time (Arrigo, 2014). This particular paper is an attempt

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    It is known that the use of cell phones, specifically handheld use such as texting, while driving decreases driver awareness and the overall safety of roads. In response to this knowledge, some states have passed laws that have outlawed the use of handheld devices, and while there should be laws that definitively outlaw handheld usage, is there enough empirical evidence to outlaw hands free usage of cell phones? In other words, does hands free usage of cell phones, via bluetooth, speakerphone, etc

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    What are the reasons why teenagers use the mobile phone while driving? Introduction Mobile phones play a significant part in people’s life. It is more than a tool. This essay will firstly discuss the growing users of mobile phones. Following this, it will discuss the relations between mobile phones and driving. Finally, it will look at the reasons why teenagers use the mobile phone while driving. Table 1: Collision claim frequencies for new vehicles by month Source from: Laws Which Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving Not Reducing

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    Reckless driving habits causes majority of these accidents. Many of today’s drivers have dangerous driving habits. In our day-to-day lives, you will ultimately cross paths with a careless driver. Some people survive these accidents while others do not. Reckless driving can be seen all the time. These drivers do not only put their lives in danger but also the lives of other innocent people. Use of mobile phones while driving, using gps while driving, texting and not concentated on driving, and Try

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    For years, people who driving under influence leading causes of road accidents in many countries. Many people have a cell phone and some even call their cell phone their life line. The cell phone is a provider of very important information such as addresses, phone numbers, and important dates. However, while the cell phone has many positive attributes like keeping people in touch, the cell phone becomes very dangerous when a person decides to drive and use it.This obliged many countries especially

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    Drive a Car, Not a Cell Phone Essay

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    cameras placed inside one hundred cars and trucks to track drivers' activities before a dangerous event occurred. Research shows users of cell phones while driving caused far more crashes and near misses than non-users. These statistics do not change even if the hand held device becomes hands free by means of a blue tooth or speaker phone. Hands-free cell phones may allow the driver to keep both hands on the wheel however, devices such as headsets or voice activated dialing led to longer

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    last few decades, the use of cell phones has become a very common tool. Furthermore, Technology has certainly advanced, and the cell phone is becoming the most preferred mode of communication. The demand for a cell phone is growing every day. In addition, the use of wireless technology is affordable, and anyone can buy a cell phone at a reasonable price. They come in all shapes and sizes. They range from black to bright metallic white. American public use of cell phones is increasing everyday. As

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    Use of Cellular Phones While Driving Essay

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    Cellular Phones While Driving Cellular phone is a wireless and hand-held device that is well known to the public. It is very common to have a cellular phone now a day since cell phone was introduced to the United States in 1983. According to the wireless industryfs trade association, Cellular Communications & Internet Association, there are over 135 million subscribers in the United States at the time of this writing. It estimates that there will be over 200 million cellular phone subscribers

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