Texting And Driving Essay

Chantay Lowe English 1301 Persuasive Essay People should be cited for texting while driving because not only are drivers putting themselves in danger but also everyone else around them. Statistics have indicated that over 6,000 deaths and well over half a million injuries have occurred due to drivers using cell phones in 2011 alone. Drivers sending or receiving test messages take their eyes off of the road for at least five seconds which is enough time to cover an entire football field

Texting and Driving Do you ever just sit and think about why everything be so high? Or just be chatting with one of your friends, and one out the bunch just says” I’m tired of taxes going up”. Well car wrecks, injury, and jail time is one of the reasons why our tariffs be high. Every day in the United States somebody has been killed from a distracted driver. One of the distracted activities people do is texting while driving. I think this is extremely dangerous because people who are doing this takes

English 12 27 November 2017 Persuasive Essay: Texting and driving Even though in today's time everyone has a cell phone and that it's not new to the world. There are some disadvantages and advantages on having a cell phone. One advantage is that it helps with communication with family and friends in today's time. One disadvantage with having a cell phone is that when people receive a phone call or text they want to answer it right away no matter if you're driving or not so it causes distraction and

Essay 1 A concerning number of people believe in their ability to text while driving. Although the repercussions of texting and driving are common knowledge, innumerable people disregard them every day. I am perplexed by others’ abandon due to my prudence and understanding about attentional capacity. Driving is a seemingly automatic process at times, but still requires a certain level of consciousness in monitoring one’s surroundings. Said level necessitates cognitive resources, often leaving little

You would think that every state in the United States would have made texting and driving illegal but, in fact in Arizona and Montana you can text and drive as soon as you get your license when you are 16. In Texas you can’t text and drive if you are under 18, a bus driver, or you are in a school zone but, if you are above the age, not in a school zone or a bus driver, then you can text and drive with ease. In Missouri it is illegal to text and drive if you are under 21, but once you are 21 you are

driver. One of the distracted activities people do is texting while driving. I think this is extremely dangerous because people who are doing this takes their attention off the road, just to send a text. Which increases the chance that the driver can lose the control of the vehicle, and could cause a crash or even in a worst case could kill other people. When a person is texting, she/he is thinking about other things besides concentrating on driving. Also it could make the driver lose control of the

Why is it so important to understand the dangers of texting and driving? According to statistics, people who text and drive are twenty-three times more likely to be engaged in a car crash; therefore, no matter your age or how long you have been driving it is always imperative to keep your complete focus on the road. Texting while operating a vehicle has become the number one hindrance for many people. Texting while driving can cause harm to not only you, but also your family and even complete strangers

many problems, millions of problems and fact. Every year, millions of accidents are caused by people who were too busy paying attention to their phone and not to the road. Texting and driving has been one of the leading causes of accidents on the road because it has become such a normal thing for most people to do. Texting and driving is exactly what

While Driving? One summer morning a teen ignored her friends advice to get off her phone while she was driving. Moments later while texting, the teen drove through a red light. Her friend yelled stop, but it was too late. She t-boned her pick up truck into a minivan with a father, and his ten year old daughter. They were rushed to the hospital, but both died soon after. If we were not able to use our phones while driving accidents like this would not happen. Using your phone while driving not only

in the new generation. They are used for texting, calling, taking pictures, social media, and listening to music. These are all good reasons why people use cellphones but there are bad reasons as well. For example texting and driving can lead to accidents and big ticket fines. About 1.6 million car accidents are caused by texting and driving. Nearly 330,000 injuries are caused by texting and driving. Texting and driving is 6 times more dangerous than driving drunk. Cellphone plan limits can lead

University, in 2011 1.3 million automobile accidents were caused by texting and driving. Texting and driving are two activities that require two stimuli of the same type, specially visual. This is why a person can handle watching television and talk at the same time, it involves two different stimuli, which allows you to perform both tasks, unlike messaging and handling a car. A human being can not successfully multitask by texting and driving, he or she is overwhelming his or her senses and therefore can

Statistics show how dangerous texting and driving can be. There are many rates of cell phone use and texting that cause accidents. In 2011, at least 1.3 million car accidents were due to cellphones. When you are distracted, and looking at your cellphone, five seconds is the minimal amount of time that you were not looking at the road. Five seconds may seem like a small amount of time but if you were traveling at about 55 mph and not looking at the road, you just went the length of a football field

Cell phones use while driving can cause danger in our society. Everyday people die in car accidents because they use cell phones while driving. When people use their cell phone, their attention is not on the road. People are not concern of how dangerous or the health injuries we can cause. Using cell phones while driving means taking your eyes and hands from the wheel. When driving your attention should be on the road. Cell phone use can be texting and sending messages, reading messages, making or

The use of cell phones while driving is a huge problem, especially for teenagers, because teenagers are prone not to heed any warnings. As a teen myself, many of us feel invincible on and off the road with the mentality that “that could never happen to me.” Even research from the University of North Texas Health Science Center has shown that while most of us know the dangers of cell phone use and driving, we still ignore the risks and use our smart phones while driving. Many teenagers have this cape

This report has covered the reasons texting and driving are dangerous. It will now back those up with evidence. This report will use statistical evidence. In addition to, illustrated charts, graphs, and reliable sources. This part of the report will discuss auto accident resulting from teenage texting while driving. In addition to, injury and death rates resulting from teenage texting while driving. Teenage drivers have the highest crash rate of any others drivers. They are three times more likely