In today’s world, distractions remain prevalent in simple everyday occurrences. Amongst these distractions is the use of cell phones whether simply walking down the hallway absorbed in a conversation or behind the wheel driving down the highway. Cell phones, no matter the context, are a major distraction. They have managed to pull us away from spending time with our families and appearing in places they are not prevalent such as family dinners and behind the wheel of a car. These little handheld devices are useful tools that today’s generation is lucky to have, but they can cause grave danger. They can even decide whether you live another minute. In all cases, it is not this extreme, see however, it is. According to U.S. cell phone and driving statistics in 2012, 3,328 people died in cell-phone distraction-related crashes. About 421,000 obtained injuries in crashes involving a distracted driver. Since that survey numbers have only kept increasing. This statistic alone makes the situation a little clearer and establishes a concrete reason why Wyoming needs to eliminate cell-phone usage behind the wheel. Multiple drivers made substantial counter-examples that do create a point, but default in ways. Larisa Antonisse from Maryland stated, “If the use, of a cell phone while driving is illegal, it only makes sense to ban eating, drinking, changing the radio station, and glancing at the scenery.” Her statement makes sense for a more populous state such as Maryland. However,
While driving was developing into a more popular and affordable means of transportation, cell phone use was rapidly increasing in and out of automobiles. The combination of these technologies resulted in a large amount of cellular based distractions; consequently, they can cause serious injuries and in extreme cases death. In Cohen’s “Deadly Distraction” and Leone’s “Taking on Distracted Driving”, the authors discuss the severity of utilizing a cellular device while operating an automobile. Both of these articles were written to accomplish a similar objective: to inform the public of the negative effects on the community of distracted driving. Everyone in society is affected by distracted driving
Advancing technology in wireless communications is presenting a growing concern for distracted driving due to using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. Although distracted driving accidents and fatalities have risen in the last decade, placing a ban on the use of a cell phone or other electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle as some states have will not resolve the issue. In fact a ban on cell phones and driving may very well increase the accident and fatality rate because drivers are now more involved with concealing their illegal behaviors. More citizen participation and drivers safety management should be more carefully considered in a transpiring situation such as this. More Americans should be
On March 29, 2017 Jack Dillon Young was driving down a narrow Texas road and made of the most irresponsible choice a driver could make…texting and driving. His decision to drive while distracted lead to the death of 13 people traveling back from a choir retreat (De Brujin 2017). Looking from a historical perspective electronics in general have always created a cause for concern when behind the wheel. Since the initial days of in-car radios, 8-tracks, cassette players and CD’s, technology has been seen as an opportunity to distract the driver. As electronics evolved to more sophisticated, portable and interactive engineering—such as the Ipod or smartphone—we began to realize a greater demand of attention was required from drivers visually, manually and cognitively.
Although some people say believe that cell phones are good in case of an emergency, the implementation of cell phones is distracting drivers and leading to increases in crash percentages, elevates the percentage of teen deaths and influxes in insurance rates of teen drivers. Distracted driving is a growing problem in today's society. It causes countless deaths every year. This problem has progressed over the years due to the progress in mobile devices. The advance of cell phones has made distracted driving even more of a problem. Texting and driving is a very common problem because of the progression of cell phones. Many people think that five seconds is the minimal amount of time that drivers take away from the road when they are trying to
Do you use your cell phone while you drive? No? Good. Most people who do are well aware of the consequences, but think that they would never happen to them. Our reliance on these little devices has led to a rise in use by drivers, increasing the risk of car accidents and fatalities immensely. The main concerns which puts us at jeopardy are drivers having to take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel, in order to efficiently text, dial, change a song, etc. Also, people can be so consumed in what they are communicating that they lose their focus on driving, disabling them from driving effectively. Although cellphones play a significant role in our society, the hazards they present should be taken in to consideration more when getting
When a cell phone goes off in a classroom or at a concert, we are irritated, but at least our lives are not endangered. When we are on the road, however, irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers, weaving between lanes, for example, or nearly running down pedestrians in crosswalks. A number of bills to regulate use of cell phones on the road have been introduced in state legislatures, and the time has come to push for their passage. Regulation is needed because drivers using phones are seriously impaired and because laws on negligent and reckless driving are not sufficient to punish offenders.
Do you use your cell phone while you drive? No? Good. Most people who do are well aware of the consequences, but think that they would never happen to them. Our reliance on these devices has led to a rise in use by drivers, increasing the risk of car accidents and fatalities immensely. The main concerns, which puts us at jeopardy, are drivers having to take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel, in order to efficiently text, dial, change a song, etc. Also, people can be so consumed in what they are communicating that they lose their focus on driving, interrupting their effective driving. Although cellphones play a significant role in our society, the hazards they present should be taken further into consideration when getting behind
Numerous people may ask questions about why it is so dangerous to be texting or talking on their cellular device while driving. While others know the obvious answer and may begin to teach others about the hazards of driving while distracted. Countless people will think that nothing will happen to them; however, we will discover in this paper that they are very wrong. Distracted driving can kill you. Making proper choices while driving could keep you from getting a ticket, and could save your life!
For car drivers out on the road, whether it is to school, work, or any other activity, there is a dangerous threat. The danger is held in most drivers’ hands. The danger is a cell phone. In 2013, doctors Lee, Champagne, and Francescutti reported that distraction driving was the cause for about 80% of all car crashes (Victoria, 2013). Drivers today are not careful enough behind the wheel, for many use their phones and feel comfortable about using their phone. Although that may be the case, using a cell phone while driving is extremely dangerous, and is usually caused by possession attachment and addiction to the phone.
Over the course of recent years there have been an increasing number of accidents and deaths interconnected to texting while driving and the use of cell phones while driving. The purpose of this proposal is to inform and summarized the danger of distracted while driving. It focuses on distraction produced by the use of cell phones, text messaging, and other handheld devices. It also reflects on other distractions such as eating and drinking, and talking to passenger while driving. It is intended that this information will provide background and context for lawmakers and states considering legislation and policies against the use of handheld devices while driving.
Texting, calling, changing music, shopping, checking social media, watching movies, posting pictures: all of these can now be done on a cell phone. With the prevalent use of cell phones today, many drivers choose to participate in these activities while they are driving. Because distracted driving is responsible for accidents and injuries, many states are banning the use of cell phones while driving. Even though some may argue that the government interferes too much in the private lives of its citizens, drivers should be prohibited from cell phone use while driving because it causes accidents and harm to others as well as one’s self.
The advent of cellphones has, in many ways, made life easier for people in Birmingham, and elsewhere. For drivers, however, cellphones can be a major distraction. At any given time during daylight hours, about 660,000 people across the U.S. are using cellphones or other electronic devices while they are driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Using cellphones while driving, particularly to read or send text messages, can impact people’s ability to drive safely, and thus result in serious motor vehicle collisions.
Cell phones have become the most used object in the world in people’s everyday lives. All around America, people are using these devices; from youth to senior citizens. Cell phones come with many benefits, one being applications that allow us to access the internet anytime, hold a great amount of storage and provide navigation across America without getting lost. However, applications are also a great distraction to the youth and adults who use them. Facebook, Twitter, picture editing, games and music take away our focus from the world around us. This becomes most apparent when we look at the problem of texting while driving. Often, we see on the news people losing their lives, taking someone else’s life, injuring others or themselves because they were texting and driving. Texting while driving is extremely dangerous and will continue to get worse until we begin to take personal responsibility to stop it.
Distractions when utilizing a cellular telephone is becoming extremely prevalent in present day. A cell phone is a telephone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area without a physical connection to a network. In 1843, Michael Faraday, studied to see if space could conduct electricity. In the year of 1865, Dr. Mahlon Loomis was the first person to communicate through wireless atmosphere. He came up with the idea of transmitting and receiving messages through atmosphere as a conductor. Then, in 1973 Martin Copper, came up with Motorola and by 1977 the first cell phone was made in Chicago. While this paper shows the distraction of cell phones, many people understandably wonder how this risk compares to other
Many advocates of prohibiting the use of cell phones while driving mistakenly think that doing so will eliminate all distracted driving. What they may or may not understand is that distracted driving includes applying cosmetics, disciplining children, talking to other passengers, listening or tuning the radio, smoking, reading maps, etc… It is not the action of talking on the