Cause and effect of texting and driving In today’s society texting and driving has become an increasingly serious issue. Not only is it now illegal which is a totally different subject itself; but its life threatening to you and many others. Texting takes only just moments‚ but in that moment it could harm a life or even take one for that matter. What are the causes of texting while driving? It could be anything from being careless; to being in a hurry. In today’s time communication is limited
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Texting and driving makes you 23 more times likely to crash? Thousands of people get injured everyday from people who decide to text and drive. With a mistake so simple to fix why can’t humans put their phones down? The following essay will include; Sarah Edwards Story‚ apps that prevent texting and driving‚ and statistics and facts. Sarah Edwards was 18 years old as she read her last text message‚ when her Honda Accord went into the other lane and crashed into the rear end of a logging truck.
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a very basic driving lesson with my father. Over 5 years‚ 4 driving teachers‚ and 100 hours in a car‚ I managed to pass my driver’s test. Sufficient to say‚ I am an awful driver. The sole reason behind my poor driving skills: distractions. Between hyper-focusing on the speedometer‚ becoming to engaged in a conversation‚ or paying too much attention to the song that was on the radio‚ my driving skills were slow to improve. My friends were also victim to the plague of distracted driving‚ by texting
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Driving is one of the most dangerous activities that exists today; yet everybody is involved in it nearly every day. Of the common stereotypes in society‚ perhaps one of the most common is that of the immature teenagers behind the wheel taking the lives of others. This stereotype is completely false. Although teens may be more susceptible to car accidents‚ the driving age should remain the same because the problem is lack of practice‚ teenageers need to travel around‚ teenagers are not the only
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Cell phones have dramatically evolved and increased over the last few years‚ and because of this change‚ the use of talking and texting on the phone while driving has increased. While people are on looking for the next big thing in a cell phones‚ they fail to pay attention to the road that lies ahead of them. This could cause car accidents‚ fines‚ and endangering other drivers. Not only teen drivers are using cell phones‚ but older drivers too. The consequences are injury or death‚ or getting a
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be able to text and drive because it’s dangerous to everyone if you text and driving‚ you could crash since you’re not focused on the road and you and the person you hit could become seriously injured or DIE. The first reason why cell phones are dangerous is it’s dangerous to everyone if you are texting and driving. In fact in the article “ Parents Share Son’s Fatal Text Message to Warn Against Texting and Driving “ (Parents Share page 137) it said in a split second you could ruin your future
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- at 55 mph - of driving the length of an entire football field‚ blind… Well I´m sure‚ most of us have texted while driving at least once… Let me tell you‚ that according to the Distraction.gov (official U.S. Goverment website for distracted driving)‚ Texting is the most alarming distraction because it involves manual‚ visual‚ and cognitive distraction simultaneously. If it’s so dangerous‚ why do people do it? Some people still don’t know how dangerous distracted driving is. Others know
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Driving in Canada is not fashion but necessary. This is because of structural growth of the place. People live in the heart of the city and travel to the outskirts for other important things like‚ office‚ market‚ etc. Easy transportation is not available and therefore people often buy new or used cars and drive them daily. Therefore‚ driving becomes a necessary thing for the people of Guelph. It is not simply enough to know how to drive but there are other factors that might influence driving on
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created because of self-driving cars it is important to evaluate occupations lost due to self-driving cars as well. -Supporting Points -1: The advancement of the technology and regulations created due to self-driving cars well play a major role in jobs created and lost. -2: The best way to approach the idea of jobs created or lost are by asking questions of the technology and regulation such as: should truckers‚ delivery services‚ and taxi driver be more concerned with self-driving cars or the regulation
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English 102 October 29‚ 2011 Stricter DUI Laws and the Effect They Could Have At some point in our lives we have heard a news report that involved a drunk driver and an innocent victim. Usually these incidents are accidents where a person driving under the influence runs a red light or jumps a curb‚ hitting‚ and more often than not‚ killing an innocent person. These injuries and deaths are all easily preventable. In the United States‚ over 20% of all motor vehicle related deaths are caused
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