Distracted Driving Speech
One of the most popular item on a bucket list is learning how to drive. This is an accomplishment that is usually done between the late teenage years to the early young adult years. As we all know, driving is the most used form of transportation in America, but it is also the leading cause of accidents. The question is what is being done about it, with the advancement of technology and database, we should be seeking ways to reprimand it. I am going to be talking about different methods designed to stop texting and driving and their predicted influence on accidents. Accidents caused by driving are based on either distractions or influence. “Distracted driving is the diversion of attention from driving, because of the temporary focus on an object,
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But no state bans all cellphone use for the driver rather 44 states ban text messaging for all drivers and 14 states prohibit using handheld phones for all drivers. In Japan, for example, the percentage of accidents caused by distracted driving mostly cellphones dropped by 75 percent in a month of initiating the law. However, some of these laws are effective and make our road safer. The government laws are one out of many actions being taken to reduce these accidents. Awareness and campaigns are also being held. With earlier suggestions such as GPS, a navigation system that was updated to a voice navigation system expected to reduce the number of seconds taken off the road to find directions. The Bluetooth system that was expected to help answer phone calls and reduce handheld phone calls. The likely most effective action would be by the cellphone and car manufacturers. This is because Apple and Google, the two greatest cellphone platforms, are said to be in a fight over car dashboards and collaborating with automobile companies. Google which is to android is said to have created an app called Android auto and Apple which is to the IOS has also created an application called carplay. The application by both companies is expected to help create coordination between their consumers and their
But no state bans all cellphone use for the driver rather 44 states ban text messaging for all drivers and 14 states prohibit using handheld phones for all drivers. In Japan, for example, the percentage of accidents caused by distracted driving mostly cellphones dropped by 75 percent in a month of initiating the law. However, some of these laws are effective and make our road safer. The government laws are one out of many actions being taken to reduce these accidents. Awareness and campaigns are also being held. With earlier suggestions such as GPS, a navigation system that was updated to a voice navigation system expected to reduce the number of seconds taken off the road to find directions. The Bluetooth system that was expected to help answer phone calls and reduce handheld phone calls. The likely most effective action would be by the cellphone and car manufacturers. This is because Apple and Google, the two greatest cellphone platforms, are said to be in a fight over car dashboards and collaborating with automobile companies. Google which is to android is said to have created an app called Android auto and Apple which is to the IOS has also created an application called carplay. The application by both companies is expected to help create coordination between their consumers and their