Accidents are caused by multi-tasking, Teens are easily distracted while driving by cell phones, the radio or even something simple as a friend talking to you. Which results in the poor choices in decision making and risky behaviors of youngsters behind the wheel, that will cause them to evaluate risk incorrectly. At the age of 16 years old students don’t have the mind capacity to drive and make responsible decisions. Although some young teenage drivers can drive responsibly and safely the roads will be a lot safer with a higher minimum driving age. Most teens at least 18 years old will have had more opportunities to learn an actually benefit from experience.
These days, teens are not required to have much experience to be given a license, which is why we have so many fatal car accidents. Lastly, parents should be encouraged to help inform their children, not only about the dangers of the road, but also about peer pressure. They should encourage them to call for a ride home if they feel unsafe or unable to drive, and they should talk to them about the differences between right and wrong ways to handle certain situations, and encourage them to pull over when using their cell phones. Driving in the digital age has added worries. (Times, 2007) Parents should encourage their teens to drive the speed limit, even if it means being late for curfew.
* Parents need to be role models for their children. If you, as a parent show responsibility about texting and driving, you will show our child that it is not ok. * Laws have been implemented in most states to ban cell phone use while driving. We have very serious laws against drinking and driving, and the consequence are very costly if caught behind the wheel while intoxicated. So we need to come up with better solutions to stop people from texting and driving. The information that I have in this report comes from my research that I have conducted through Keiser University Library.
March 29, 2012 Texting While Driving Texting while driving is the act of reading, sending, or composing a text message while behind the wheel of an automobile. Texting while driving is becoming an increasing threat on the road, as texting is becoming an important part of American’s lives. If you think you’ve mastered the art of texting while driving, you’re wrong. Texting while driving severely decreases awareness, and makes it easier to be involved in an accident. Texting while driving has become a major cause of accidents, especially among young drivers.
Distracted Driving: Technology has become an obsession among many Americans. Over the years cell phones have gone from a business necessity, to a personal necessity. As a result of cell phone dependence and the need for a person to always be accessible, Americans continuously endanger themselves and others by texting while driving. The Vermont texting while driving law is widely ignored because it is severely flawed. Texting while driving has been forbidden in Vermont since July 2010.
We now know that mobile communications are linked to a significant increase in distracted driving, resulting in injury and loss of life. With this said some people believe that texting and driving needs to be closely monitored because of the risk it involves. While other people think that it is alright to use the phone while driving as long as we keep glancing at the road while replying to the text. Currently there is no national ban on texting or using a wireless phone while driving, but a number of states have passed laws banning texting or wireless phones or requiring hands-free use of wireless phones while driving. This epidemic negatively affects teens and their society and should be strictly avoided.
Times of crying, pain just plain out suffer will come upon family and love ones of the person no longer with them, especially not being their fault. Young Adults have a passion for drinking on present time, but the problem found in being under control of a four thousand pound machine while under the influence. Road blocks, have been a clever way to stop many drunk drivers, but not enough to put everyone under control. Someone related to a young adult receiving a phone call informing them the youngster has been in an automotive accident, arriving at the scene being notified that the child has lost his life, an imaginary scenarios brought by Beeson’s poem. Family suffers from all the pain and sorrow brought to them by such thing, which
Cell Phones and Driving: Teenagers on the road, as it is, pose an extremely huge risk. However teenagers on the road with cellular devices, now that is suicide, unsafe, contingent, and problematic. Another name for this issue is called “Distracted Driving”. Distracted driving (according to distraction.gov) is any activity that could divert a person's attention away from the primary task of driving. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and bystander safety, the main points of distracted driving were going to look at are those that involves: •Texting • Using a cell phone or Smartphone Nevertheless, it does not matter what you call the situation.
Stop Texting & Driving Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop using their cell phones while driving a vehicle because it is irresponsible and extremely dangerous. Specific Purpose: Using a cell phone while driving is not only dangerous to you, but others on the road and is one of the top reasons today for car accidents. Attention Grabber: How many people here have texted while driving? I am like most people where I have texted while driving, but after I got into an accident a couple years back because I was distracted by texting, I rethought the level of importance of texting while driving. (show picture of my car) this is the result of what happened to me when I was texting on my way home from work a couple weeks ago.
You could have easily injured or killed someone else or yourself. On top of it all, you are to blame for causing the accident. The whole situation could have been avoided if you had waited until you reached your destination before looking at your phone. Distracted driving has become a serious problem within the past decade due to the prevalence of distractions such as portable music players, talking on cell phones, and text messaging. A split second glance away from the road is all it takes for disaster to strike while driving.