In his article “Cell Yell: Thanks for (Not) Sharing”, Eric A. Taub explains how people have become frustrated with inconsiderate cell-phone users. People seem to have forgotten their manners. Unfortunately, we have developed into a society where signs need to be put up to tell people how to behave, for example “no cell phone use”. I believe it is very rude for people to have loud and inappropriate conversations in public places, such as restaurants and while riding public transportation. We are living in a time when wireless technology has perpetrated all aspects of our society.
The cause of accident as reported by the police officials has been negligent driving. It is mentioned in the report that Nick was talking on a cell phone that led to a lapse in his concentration and he eventually lost his control, bumping into a huge cargo truck. His sudden demise has left us in an unexplainable pain. As a tribute to our love for Nick, we all have decided to gather courage and recover from this shock. To engage ourselves in a construcive work, we have started a campaign to spread awareness about accidents related to cell phones and driving.
This has increased the rate of auto accidents, socially and emotionally distracted us from friends and family, cell phone users have put their own safety at risk while using their phone just walking down the street, and have caused distractions in the class room as well. People who text while driving are not only putting their own lives in danger, but also passengers in their vehicle and others on the road around them. There are so many fatalities on the roads today due to cell phone users. Just looking down at your phone for a second can cause an accident that could have been prevented if they would have just waited to reply to a text message or waited to answer a phone call until they were completely stopped and in a safe place to do so. Use of the cell phone while driving also seems to cause people to drive slower and not pay as much attention when changing lanes.
In this time, children are exposed to approximately 40,000 advertisements per year. An average teenager spends thirty one hours per week on the internet and sixty three percent of teenagers read magazines. It is impossible to escape the media, whether it is at school, home, and work or in the general public. My personal routine is watching half an hour of television in the morning before school. In addition I will facebook for an hour then basketball programs and homework for two hours.
Cell phone usage while driving is a very touchy subject. Cell phones can be very dangerous while operating a motor vehicle. I believe that cell phones are the most distracting thing while operating a motor vehicle. I have done research to back up my theory and most care accidents caused by teens in the past few years was while texting and or answer a phone. This law would minimize the number of accidents that occur, I do believe.
They keep use it while they driving; even though they have known the numerous affects of using it in car. In this world there are many people who are died because this problem. In particular, today's society should abolish the use of cell phone while driving the car for three reasons. The first and most important reason for abolitions using cellular phone while driving is that it is raise the risk of crash. From years past, people are using cell phone.
Are cell phones dangerous? Yes, it is dangerous. Cell phones have lost their meaning over the years. These small devices were once developed to get in contact with someone else in case of emergencies, and now talking on the phone while driving has turned out to be a way of life for millions of drivers. Talking on the cell phone while driving is illegal, because of the dangers they cause.
With the growing anti-wait lifestyle of human nature many are trying to make every spare minute of their life productive. While most do so by doing what needs to be done at the home, office, etc. some choose a more dangerous way to try to conserve precious time. While this may seem very drastic to point out about such a simple task many are incapable of effectively driving while using their cellular phone. Research found that 60% of cellular phone usage is done while driving.
Harvard researchers estimate about one in 20 U.S. traffic accidents involve a driver talking on a cell phone. According to researcher Joshua Cohen of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, said that “we calculate that around 2,600 people die each year as a result of this use of the technology and another 330,000 are believed injured”( Grace, Francie). As time passes by we are relying more and more on technology that we depend on it every day to get our things done. Cell phones are just a small piece of technology that we Americans cannot live without. According to the Nielsen 2012 Media Industry Fact Sheet, “there are over 223 million U.S. mobile phone users over the age of 13” (Tippen, C.).
Because of the increased number of traffic accidents caused by cell phones, I believe cell phone use should be banned while driving automobiles. Using a cell phone while driving is not only a major distraction, but it can be extremely dangerous or even fatal. In a recent study done by Strayer and Johnson, they found that “cell-phone conversations made drivers more likely to miss traffic signals and react more slowly to the signals that they did detect” (Strayer and Drews 128). Awareness of one’s surroundings is vital in safe operation of an automobile. When a driver is talking on a cell phone, the phone conversation “disrupts performance by diverting attention from the external environment associated with the driving task to an engaging context associated with the cell-phone conversation” (Strayer and Drews 129).