In Road Rage, Ferguson points out that in a recent survey that the Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety did, 64% of the people mentioned that they are driving less mannerly and more recklessly than they did about five years ago (553). We all know that road rage can be cause due to many reasons like stress at work and problems at home. Ferguson also points out that road rage could be solve if we had more police and tougher punishments (556), but we all know that won’t really help. I don’t even think that therapy for those road rage individuals would help. We all just have to pray every time we get into a car and just have patience.
Some states have banned the use of use of cellphone use unless used with a hands free device and some states banned texting while driving. If all cell phone use is banned while driving, some accidents will not occur. Are accidents rates lower for drivers that do not use cell phones? We know that car accidents happen daily, caused by faulty equipment and weather. The truth of the matter is that sometimes accidents cannot be avoided, but if adding in a distraction such as cell phone use, it increases the accident rate.
This shows the reader to know that how life is important and nothing can compare to teenager’s life. In addition, more teens will reach their goal when they were younger. This means that more teens will become an adult if they don’t die during teenager’s age. Thirdly, banning cell phones while driving will decrease financial problems for many families. For example, some people don’t have car and medical insurance when they get into serious car accidents.
Approximately 1.4 million accidents occur during phone conversations and two hundred thousand from texting.3 Texting drivers may be as impaired as a driver who is legally drunk. Laws should be changed or enacted to prevent senseless accidents, and unnecessary deaths. About five thousand people die annually texting while driving.3 Three-hundred thousand people are hospitalized for injuries obtained from accidents cause by phone use in the vehicle.4 Again no state in the U.S. completely bans all cellular phone use in the vehicle for all age groups.1 Without firm, enforced laws or probations regarding phone use in vehicles this issue will continue to grow worse. 1. 2012, Texting And Distracted Driving Infograaphic, retrieved on 2014, January 27, from:
If people would simply buckle up, that alone could cut the costs down dramatically. Studies show that learning about wearing a seat belt in school is not particularly getting the job done with people who are under twenty five years old. Everybody knows that when a car crashes into something, whatever is hit stops the car. What most people do not know is that if a seatbelt is not being worn, a body will continue to move at the same speed that the car was moving. This is how people get thrown from cars through the wind shield, hit their heads on steering wheels, and maybe even get thrown out of their window.
Here in the 21st century, we’ve landed on cellular phones. Same debate, different details. According to a study funded by AAA Foundation for Traffic safety, using a hands free device holds approximately the same distraction as tuning the radio on. The use of cell phones should not prohibited while driving an automobile because it is a way to keep you awake if you are driving somewhere far, it can be used for emergency purposes, and it is the least of your worries for accident causing. Talking on cell phones is a helpful way to keep you awake while driving.
Even those Bluetooth headsets raise the potential risk of an accident. Even though a person’s hands may be free of the cellular device, he or she is still being distracted by the conversation. Cell phone usage while driving causes 2,500 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year. People who drive while talking on a cell phone raise the risk of an accident or death. Recent studies show that a person driving while talking on a cell phone has less awareness of the road than a person who is driving drunk.
An increasing number of studies show that driving while talking on a cellphone can be dangerously distracting. Yet most states have not banned handheld phones, and most have not banned all drivers from using hands-free devices. Some say cellphone bans are simply not enforceable. Others argue that drivers do all sorts of distracting things while driving, like eating, arguing with kids in the back seat and listening to music so it makes little sense to outlaw one activity. According to the president of the National Safety Council “talking on a cellphone while driving makes a person four times more likely to be in a crash, which has a much higher risk than most other distracting activities, it’s the cellphone conversation that diverts people’s attention from the road” (Froetscher 2).
About 1.6 million car crashes every year are a result in talking on the phone or texting; if a driver takes their eyes off the road for two seconds, it can double their chance of being involved in a crash (Jackson, Nancy mann). Many people think that talking on a hand-held or a hands-free cell phone is no different from talking with a passenger. When talking with a passenger, the passenger tends to pause when the driver needs to concentrate on the road, but when talking on a phone, the person over the phone is not aware of what the driver is doing (Jackson, Nancy Mann). Since there has been many accidents and
If you were traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field while blindfolded! American drivers in their 20’s make up over 27 percent of the overall ‘distracted’ drivers involving fatalities; 10 percent of which are under the age of 20. Of that group, it includes the largest quantity of ‘distracted-driver’ accidents in the US. There needs to be tighter regulations on cellphone use while driving. With the population boom, just about everyone has a Millennial in their family or at least knows of one.