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Distracted Driving: My Life Is In Your Hands

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Distracted Driving; My Life is in Your Hands With each new day, we have a new opportunity to make a change; make better choices, make a difference in our own lives and the lives of others. Simple choices such as choosing not to drive distracted can save the life of that little child holding his mother’s hand crossing the street, or the father on his way to work in the morning. It seems simple really. Yet every second of every day, someone deems their social life more important than the lives of that mother, child and father when they choose to answer that phone, or reply to a text while driving. Do you make this choice? Are you above being at fault for the choices you make? Are your driving skills so superb that you feel invincible? If so, it is time for a reality check. No one person is a better distracted driver than the next. Although this appears to be a common …show more content…

The use of mobile devices has become so commonplace today that you can hardly step out your front door without them. We have become tethered to technology. Our dependence upon this technology is not the problem, how and where we choose to use it is. Distracted driving comes in all shapes, sizes and forms. By definition, “Distracted driving 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” (distraction.gov). “But, because text messaging requires visual, manual, and cognitive attention from the driver, it is by far the most alarming distraction” (distraction.gov). Despite the problems’ recognition, an inequality exists; a difference in how life itself is valued based upon representation of inconsistent laws, which are meant to protect that life. Though there is a “clear and present danger”, we say, through proof of these inconsistent laws, that a person driving on one side of the country is less likely to be distracted than a driver on the other side

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