No Phones while Driving

Despite the fact that texting while driving is extremely dangerous, many people still engage in it. A study showed that about 77% of adolescents think that they are safe texting while driving. Some people think drunk driving is more dangerous but it is 3 times more likely to pull out your phone than to get a DUI. So people need to put down their phones!!

Even though you think it is safe, it can hurt many others. Would you think it's safe to use a phone while driving? Phones while driving slows down the driver's reaction time. Scientists have studied 42 drivers between the ages of 16 and 54 drove on a 10-mile test course while sending or receiving text messages, and while focusing completely on the road. The on time. The average reaction time without texting was between one and two seconds, but while texting it increased to three to four seconds, regardless of whether the driver was typing or reading a text. The researchers also found that a texting driver was 11 times more likely to miss the flashing light.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that in 2010 driver distraction was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes – with 3,092 people killed and 416,000 people seriously injured. For example, a teenage girl from Kansas City, Missouri has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for her role in a fatal accident that occurred because she was texting while driving.

Nevertheless, opponents say that the hands-free set is safest because people can drive using two hands. Nevertheless, hands-free devices don't decrease the risk of causing an accident and even may make it worse by implying that the behavior is safe. Investigations show that using a headset can be as risky as holding a phone because the conversations distract drivers from concentrating on the road. Scientists had shown that somebody talking over the phone will have a horrible reflex. The person who they are talking to doesn't interfere with driving. The problem is when a car swerves suddenly might hurt other motorists or a pedestrian, and with the mind lacks the processing power to react in time. which might make the situation worse. So the problem isn't in holding the wheel and cell phone at the same time. What may make an accident because of the loss of maneuver, it is because of conversation and absence of response at an accurate time.

Workers whose work depends on a cell phone like lawyers or businessmen say that they always have to be available to answer the phone to keep their business running. However, because of their habits, they can create dangerous and hazardous situations like a collision or an accident. Business issues can be stressful and dangerous while driving because it can cause emotional responses that can lead to disaster. Because of the conversation, they might get upset and this can lower their driving ability that can lead to losing government over the vehicle. So if people don't make a choice to put aside their cell phones their routine can hurt innocent people.researchers asked the drivers to stop when they saw a flashing yellow light and recorded their reaction

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