The name Jacy Good is a familiar name in the legislation office. Since 2009 Good has tirelessly fought to ban hand-held cell phone use by drivers and to make text-messaging while driving illegal. In May of 2008 Jacy had just graduated college and her parents had come to pick her up to take her home. They had packed all her belongings into their little station wagon and were heading back to their small town in Pennsylvania. Her family had no idea what would be in store for them. As they were on Route
Cell Phone Use While Driving Cell phones play an important role in communicating in our modern society. Although using a cell phone is a convenient and fast way for getting in touch with people, they should not be used while operating an automobile. Cell phone use while driving has dramatically increased over the past years in the U.S., and studies show that the risk of having an automobile accident or near accident significantly increases when a person is talking on their cell phone. Although
Cell phone use increases the likelihood of motor vehicle accidents The use of a cell phone while driving increases the likelihood of having an automobile accident and as such the use of cell phones in vehicles should be restricted and irresponsible drivers should be prosecuted under the letter of the law for reckless driving. Cell phones have become a commodity in our everyday lives. Some people however are taking the trend to extremes by engaging in conversations while operating a moving vehicle
Cell Phone Usage While Driving COM/156 Texting while driving can become very dangerous, not only to you as a driver, but also to the other people that may be in the vehicle with you. It is also very dangerous to the other people in vehicles around you. I believe that it is also dangerous to individuals who may be walking down the street as well. There are many distractions of texting when driving a motor vehicle. Visual distraction is caused by taking your eyes off the road to check a
Should Drivers of Automobiles be Prohibited from using Cell Phones? They get in our way and distract us every time we get on our vehicles and venture into the road. Mobile devices also known as cellphones and smartphones have become a need to a lot of people that we use them all the time even when we are on the road driving. These devices although very useful can result in being very dangerous to us and to the other people sharing the road with us. Harvard researchers estimate about one in 20
THE CELL PHONE (MOBILE) USE WHILE DRIVING. To my way of thinking the mobile phone is a tool that well used is a powerful communication device that it can open the world. Actually I have little time to use a cell phone. In the nineties my first cell phone was a black Motorola Startac. To me it was a dream come true because I was one of the first among my friends in to have it a mobile phone but it was useless because I didn’t have many people to talk to. In the past, when some one used a mobile
WHY BANNING THE USE OF CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING SHOULD BE MANDATORY NATIONWIDE I. A. General Purpose To convince my audience that cell phone usage while driving should be banned nationwide. B. Specific Purpose To inform the audience of the significant danger of using a cell phone while driving, and convey the importance of getting the word out to enact both individual and societal change, nationwide. C. Central idea The use of a cell phone or other mobile device while operating an automobile
means a lot because when I look at the little lamb it reminds me of always visiting my little sister in the hospital, and little lamb was the thing we brought home from the hospital instead of my little sister. She was in the hospital for quite a while, so me and my older sister never had a chance to visit her because she was in the San Francisco hospital and we lived here in Turlock. Little lamb will always be a reminder of how anxious I want to see my little sister but couldn’t. So little lamb
Cell phones have grown in popularity enormously in the last twenty years. Having a cell phone has become a necessity for twelve year olds to senior citizens. Cell phones are the most widely used device of communication for Americans. Not only are cell phones used for talking, but also many cell phones have capabilities to do everything that a computer can do. Due to the increasing popularity and ever changing technological developments, cell phone usage has increased while operating a motorized
against Cell Phones While Driving According to a Harvard University study, cell phones cause over 200 deaths and half a million injuries each year. I believe that every state in the United States should have a law that bans the use of cell phones while driving. When people use their cell phones while driving they could have a car crash or get a ticket because they are paying more attention to the phone than to the road. People are distracted from the road when they are trying to find their phone, texting