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    in the car and they were texting? Well most likely you have seen at least one person texting and driving. Texting and driving is very dangerous. I believe that texting and driving is dangerous because 1 It distracts the driver from paying attention or to the road, 2 This is how most crashes happens, And 3 It wouldn’t be that hard not to pull over and text them then because then you and the people driving around you would be more safe from getting into crashes. 1 it distracts the driver. Most people

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    "National Teen Driving Statistics" showed that 16-year-old teenagers are three times more likely to die in car accidents than the average of all drivers. More teenage drivers are involved in car crashes every year than any age group and are more likely to die. Many states grant 16 year olds unsupervised driving privileges, which many safety advocates argue it too soon. Many argue that teenagers are emotionally and psychological immature when facing other challenges. The driving age should be raised;

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    yourself, “Are self driving vehicles even possible?” Well, the simple answer is yes. In fact, the self driving car and other self driven forms of transportation, like autopilot, have already been invented. The exception being that the self driving car is still being tested before becoming commercially available. It truly is amazing how much has been done in such a short period of time. Go back 20 years and some of these ideas seemed completely impossible. Autopilot and the self driving car are significant

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    Imagine a world where the amount of daily automobile fatalities were dramatically reduced. Where men, women, children wouldn't have to died needlessly. The restriction on hand-held devices while driving is the correct decision ,because drivers would be forced to admit all of their attention on the road and it could reduce the number of deaths in automobile accidents. I agree with this law ,because of its many beneficial elements that come along with it that could improve America. Some

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    Driving Is Your Responsibility Complete the K—W—L information below. Answer in one or more complete sentences. 1. K—What You Know Discuss two things you know about driving. A. I know that a minor’s parents will be responsible for any financial consequences from an accident. B. I know that driving is a privilege— not a right. 2. W—What You Want to Know Discuss two things you want to know about driving. A. I want to know the requirements to get your driver’s license. B. I want to know more about traffic

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    engage in while driving. The survey revealed that nine in 10 people rated sending or receiving a text message as the biggest distraction for drivers, yet more than four in 10 respondents still confessed to doing it. Other major distractions according to respondents were attending to children, pets or animals and reading while driving, which 54 per cent of people admitted to doing at some stage over the last 12 months. A large number of respondents also reported being distracted by insects such

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    Texting While Driving

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    1. According to Winfrey, how is texting while driving similar to driving while drunk? How is it different? According to Winfrey, texting while driving is similar to driving while one is drunk because in both cases one is not concentrated on the main task which is driving. As she explained, many years ago, there was a wave of fatal car accidents in the U.S. that were caused by drunken driving. After the first deaths from drunken driving had been big in the news, the country had gotten so used to

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    Risk Analysis study. Texting while driving a vehicle has now replaced drinking while driving as the leading cause of accidents and deaths of teenage drivers. Texting in traffic isn’t simply a problem among teens and 47% of adults admit that they text while driving. Texting drivers are 23 times more likely to be involved in a crash than non-texting drivers (Driving while Texting Six Times More Dangerous than Driving while Drunk, 2014). A mobile phone while driving is not only physically distracting

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    texting while walking! So let’s get started on why not to make this law. To start, Distracted walking has become a serious and dangerous problem in the United States. In this argument distracted walking is considered texting while walking. Some people think the solution is to make it illegal. Others think there are other solutions for solving this problem. Though Honolulu is the first city to make the law, of no distracted walking, doesn’t mean it is a good solution to this problem. There is no law needed

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    Netherlands have in common? The answer is they are the countries and for Victoria a state with the lowest teen road accident per population and their strict road laws like the minimum driving age of 18 and complexity of obtaining a drivers license juxtapose to another country like America, with the minimum driving age of 16. American teens are involved in over 240,000 fatal motor accidents per year. That is approximately six teens who would end up in the emergency room every day due to motor accidents

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