...Distracted Driving has been an on-going issue; committed by both veteran and beginner drivers. Multiple states including Florida have begun fining those who are caught texting and driving in order to reduce the numbers of those injured and/or killed due to distracted drivers. Alaska being the highest with a ten-thousand dollar fine; while Florida is one of the lowest with a 35 dollar fine. Many oppose these laws, claiming that if you’re a good enough driver, you can text while driving and not get into an accident. However, this is still not enough proof or a reason to stop fining those who are caught, because over 330,000 people in the U.S. are still dying by text related accidents. Something that has been helping combat this problem however, are Public Service Announcements (PSA’S). Whether it be a story of a...
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...Distracted Driving Sometimes in life “sorry” can become a magic word and fix everything, then there are times that saying “sorry” undoes nothing. Will saying “sorry” help when you crash your parent’s car, because you are too busy looking at your phone? What about when you kill someone’s child because you’re too busy talking to your friend and run a stop light? Will you say “sorry” to the kid’s parents and expect everything to be okay? Saying “sorry” cannot begin to fix some things and preventing those from happening by acting responsibly in the first place is the best you can do. I like the introduction technique with the hypothetical questions. However, you now need to transition into your thesis or central claim, and that central claim needs to come here, at the end of the intro paragraph. Ninety percent of car accidents are caused by human error – driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, speeding recklessly, changing lanes without signaling, passing through red lines, and probably most known of all: distracted driving OK, first of all, don’t begin body paragraphs with statistics. Rarely should you do this. Instead, remember that I want your body paragraphs to begins with subclaims. Secondly, where did you get this statistic? This is not a research paper (you’ll be taught proper research in Composition II). For now, we want you to avoid research sources except your interviews. . Distracted Driving is dangerous and can kill you and those people around you.—THIS...
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...Injury Prevention: Motor Vehicle Injuries and Distracted Driving Among Teen Drivers Heather Stockman Waynesburg University Advanced Health Promotions Judith Adams August, 20, 2013 Injury Prevention: Motor Vehicle Injuries and Distracted Driving Among Teen Drivers Injuries are extremely widespread across society today and unintentional injuries remain among the top 15 killers for people of any age. The majority of people just accept these incidents as accidents, acts of fate, or a part of life although most of the events that result in injury, disability, or death are not only predictable but preventable. Beyond their immediate health consequences, injuries have a major impact on the well-being of society by contributing to premature death, disability, increased medical costs, and lost productivity. In addition, the effects of injury affect not only the injured person but also family members, friends, coworkers, and communities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). The Injury and Violence Prevention objectives for 2020 include a wide range of issues that can improve the health of the nation if appropriately addressed. One such objective focuses on motor vehicle crashes that are due to distracted driving. This paper will focus on that initiative. INTRODUCTION Distraction is any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving. There are three main types of distraction. The first is when the driver takes his eyes...
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...English 106 November 24, 2013 Mr. William Lehman Solutions for Distracted Driving Driving is a very important thing to know how to do; it not only gets you from one place to another but also helps in different endeavors, such as grocery shopping, or in case of emergencies. This makes sense when you look at the number of driver’s licenses issued in the year of 2003. The state of California issued 22,657,288 driver’s licenses, ranking the state number one in issuing the most licenses in the year (StateMaster, 2004). Texas, coming in at number two, issued a total number of 13,498,071 licenses that same year (StateMaster, 2004). Keeping these numbers in mind, one would say that driving is one of the most important things in a person’s life. Achieving a driver’s license is a big deal that is worth celebrating in one’s eyes, especially if said license is achieved at a young age of 16-years-old. Even though driving can be a blessing, it is also a massive responsibility. If drivers do not take it seriously then someone may end up hurt, if not dead. The major way people abuse the ability to drive is by participating in distracting behaviors. There are various ways that a driver, young and old, may become distracted and therefore putting not only their lives but the lives of everyone around them in danger. Texting and driving is considered to be the one most thing that drivers do that cause them to become distracted, but this is in fact not the only problem that drivers have. Talking...
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...Drunk driving and devising ways to prevent it have been a long standing issue in our society, and rightfully so. However, there are individuals far worse dangerous to have behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. As reported in the American Journal of Public Health, a journal dedicated to the publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health, Dr. Fernando Wilson and Jim Stimpson, in collaboration with the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), affirm that a person that is texting while driving is 23 times more likely to be involved in a car crash than a drunk driver (2010). Between 2005 and 2008, distracted driving fatalities increased more than 28% nationwide (Stimpson & Watson, 2010). Driving while texting has become an undeniable danger as these figures support. It is for this reason, as reported in the Dallas Morning News, that Texas lawmakers recently passed a bill, 124-16, to ban texting while driving (Hoppe, 2011). This bill has now gone on to seek much needed approval from the governor, Rick Perry. With so much support coming from the Texas House, it is expected for the bill to pass. However, one must keep in mind that Governor Perry has a penchant for vetoing bills, as was evident back in 2000 when he vetoed a record 83 bills in one day (CBSDFW.com, 2011). As of right now the state of Texas currently has a no-texting policy for licensed drivers under the age of 18 and anyone driving in a school zone (Hoppe...
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...5 Assignment 1 The Distracted Driving Course By Thermdotcom Based on the continuing efforts to make our technicians the customer facing examples of our company, I am writing to suggest a training course I think will benefit out field staff greatly. The course I am proposing will delve into the distracted driving trend our technicians are faced daily. I have found an organization whose sole purpose is to make corporate driver’s safer. I think it is best if we use an external vendor to supply the training. The organization is NSC or the National Safety Council. I came across one of the instructors last year at a conference, and feel they will be a great asset. A little insight into this organization: “The nation's leading safety advocate for more than 100 years, the National Safety Council is a nonprofit organization with the mission to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy. Working to make the world measurably safer, NSC advances this mission by engaging businesses, government agencies, elected officials and the public to help prevent the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. – unintentional injuries The Council is data driven, relying on research to inform best practice solutions to safety issues. To make the greatest impact, NSC focuses on where the most preventable injuries and deaths occur - cell phone use while driving, teen driving, workplace safety,...
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...Criminal Law August 12, 2013 Texting and Driving: It Can Wait Leslee’s life changed forever on March 4th. Leslee Henson and her husband David were involved in a terrible pedestrian-motor accident. They were not driving a car; they were simply going for a walk on a Monday morning in their neighborhood when tragedy struck. The motorist that was guilty of texting, rear ended another vehicle that struck the pedestrians. David shielded his wife, Leslee and took the death for her. In other words, he pushed her out of the way and he died while she survived and has to endure more than 5,000 stitches and staples on her head and neck. Bones in Leslee’s neck and back were broken. She had bleeding in her brain. Her shoulder was injured. The woman that caused the accident was 50 years old, late for work and was texting with her head down. In addition to all these factors, she did not have insurance which leaves Leslee with the medical bills. The car that she rear ended was being driven by a man named Fred, who witnessed David pushing his wife out the way and taking the blow for her. 1 So many individuals’ lives will never be the same because that lady chose to send a text. It has not been revealed what the message entailed but if it was that pertinent, than as a mature person she should have pulled over and taken precautionary measures. David was an amazing father, husband, uncle, and grandfather to 10 darling grand kids. Leslee did go home, two and a half weeks after the accident...
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... kingsly Student ID: AC150526 Course No. SP180.1.2 – Principles of Public Speaking Lesson No. 6 – Persuasive Speech Outline Dec 28th, 2015 TITLE: WHY BANNING THE USE OF CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING SHOULD BE MANDATORY NATIONWIDE I. A. General Purpose To convince my audience that cell phone usage while driving should be banned nationwide. B. Specific Purpose To inform the audience of the significant danger of using a cell phone while driving, and convey the importance of “getting the word out” to enact both individual and societal change, nationwide. C. Central idea The use of a cell phone or other mobile device while operating an automobile always results in a distracted driver, which in turn has been seen to cause serious accidents, including many fatalities. These tragedies are entirely preventable, as virtually no phone call or text is so urgent that the driver doesn’t have time to pull over – or have another passenger operate the mobile device. II. Introduction 72% of drivers with cell phones report that they use them to talk or to text while driving. They are aware of the many dangerous situations and also know that it is illegal, but in most cases, discount it. A. Key point #1: Society’s reliance on cell phones. B. Key point #2: What is a distracted driver? C. Key point #3: What does it take to enforce the laws, consistently, from state-to-state? III. Body of the Presentation A. Key Point #1: Cell phones are as common and familiar...
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...What Type of Driver Are You? Driving is a task we must take part in on a daily basis, but after several years of driving in frustrating and hectic rush hour traffic one can begin to hate even the thought of going to the grocery store. The roads are filled with very different types of drivers; Competent, Overly Cautious, Distracted, and Reckless are just a few of them. How we determine which category we best fall under can be a challenge, because in our minds we think we are good drivers, but in most cases we’re too oblivious to these classifications. First, there are the rare competent drivers who drive safely by not speeding and obey the common driving laws. Competent drivers are always coming to a full stop, looking both ways, using turn signals, and yielding when necessary. This type of driver is the most agreeable of the bunch, putting others at no risk. More of them on the road and the world would be a better place. We tend to think of bad drivers as the ones who charge down the road, wrecking everything in their path, but is it just as bad to be too cautious? Second to the competent, are the overly cautious drivers. They seem to be the ones to cause traffic jams and frustrate other drivers, because they are so indecisive and unpredictable. You know the kind - won't speed up to merge and stops at the end of on-ramps, sits helplessly at a four-way stop because they don't know what to do, slams on the brakes for no apparent reason, and, of course, refusing to exceed the...
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...speaking, it also has a potentially fatal downside for those who text while driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 3000 people were killed in 2011 because they were distracted while driving (NTSHA, n.d.). A major source of this distraction while driving comes from the usage of cell phones and texting. While there are many skeptics out there that would argue that there are ways to multitask while driving, there is an overwhelming amount of data that supports the idea that it is not only dangerous, but potentially fatal, making it something very hard to create a good argument against. Most individuals are aware of the dangers of driving while being intoxicated, but what about driving while intexticated? Intextication, according to California Highway Patrol, “an individual becomes disconnected with their surroundings because they are mentally occupied with their cell phone” ("New approaches to end texting while driving," 2013). By looking at the overwhelming number of distraction-related accidents, it would seem as though people would be capable of realizing that it is not worth the risk to text while they are driving. Most people would feel that it is safe to assume that texting while driving is not a good thing to do, but the interesting thing is that over 40% of Americans have admitted to doing exactly that ("Stop the Texts, Stop the Wrecks," n.d.). One great way to view this would be to place yourself in the shoes of a person who just found...
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...Effects of Cellphone Use While Driving The reason I oppose the use of cell phone during driving is because I was once engaged in a cellphone use while driving that totally distracted me as it diverted my concentration off the road. This happened to me years ago, while I was driving home from work, I made a quick phone call to my mother and at the same instant the car swerved onto the side of the street and almost hit a pedestrian crossing the road. I realized that the risk of taking my eyes off the road for a split second could cause an injury and even fatal accident. It will show the audience why this issue matters to me, and why it should to them. Using a cell phone while driving is dangerous and increases the chance of getting into a car accident. Therefore, texting ban should be implemented to reduce the number of accidents on the road. Cellular phones serve as useful convenient methods of communication. It has become an important communication tool that is used by people all over the world to keep everyone connected. However, the increase use of cellphone while driving is becoming a significant cause of automobile accidents because it decreases a driver’s awareness and attentiveness resulting in driver’s being distracted and impaired driving abilities. It is true that cell phones can also be very useful, but when automobile drivers use them while driving, it becomes a very high distractor because it distracts the driver, impairs the ability to control the vehicle and...
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...using their bare hands. Time was passing, humanity was evolving newer technologies, people knew more and more about the world and laws that rule it. But one thing that every human-being wanted the most was faster way of travelling. The first step was inviting wheel. Later humans built carts, coaches and many other vehicles propelled with animal’s or person’s strength. But still it was too slow and too less automatic for people. The change came in 1769, when Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot presented his steam vehicle. Then everything started to evolve faster – and we step to nowadays, where we have many different types of cars, even the ones fueled by water or electricity. In our century, where artificial intelligence isn’t a Sci-Fi subject only but also reality, people started to think about using it in car’s safety and driving system’s development. One of the results is Google’s self-driving car, which is travelling in states of Nevada, Florida and California, where autonomous vehicles are already legalized. This technology is evolving all the time and maybe there will come the day where whole world will be able to use such kind of cars. But there comes the question – is it safe to take the human out of the loop? First we need to know what exactly means that the car is self-driving car. “An autonomous car (…) is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. As an autonomous vehicle, it is capable of sensing its environment and navigating...
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...Literally, he had lost the control of his mindset, although he is still have control of his actions. The way that Nathan takes his mission to reach his destination by risking his own life makes more innocent people to get hurt from this sociopath guy. At the same time, Nathan will face the consequences of being disconnected from the real world. At the beginning of the movie, the director introduces the main character...
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...Kassandra Vera Part 2: Texting While Driving Professor: Jolanta Kiurshanoska English 215 Nova University 18th August 2013 PART 2: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING Texting while driving didn’t become a global issue overnight, but quickly, one fatality after the next, led to alarming statistics that cannot continue to go ignored, and while some families are asking for justice, that could never replace the loved ones they’ve lost. Others are demanding a solution to the growing epidemic. In the United States alone, “over 6,000 deaths and half a million injuries are caused by distracted drivers each year.” (Edgar Snyder and Associates, 2013). Cellphone usage has been identified as the number one distraction. Is there a real solution to this issue? The answer is yes, but it will require continued efforts from manufacturers, law enforcements, along with the drivers themselves before this issue can be solved, diminishing the economical, social, and political disturbances it has stirred up in the past decade. Our phones have become smarter, thanks to innovators like Steve Jobs and his contributions to technological advancements during his leadership with Apple, while he was still alive. Not only did he predict the needs of individuals before they knew the need existed, but as he designed each Apple iPhone he brought consumers one step closer to safety. These electronic devices are so intelligent and sensitive, that the voice of a human can be used to perform commands that are directed...
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...Driving Without Cell Phone Distraction “Don’t text message when you’re driving. It’s not safe.” “Oh, Mom. You worry too much. I know what I’m doing.” “You’ll get distracted and end up in a crash.” “No, I won’t.” “When you drive my car you are not to use your cell phone to talk to your friends or text message. If it’s that important to talk, pull off the road at a safe place to use your phone.” Mom didn’t confess to her daughter that she’d tried texting while she was driving, and she had many more years of driving experience. There was no way to safely drive and use a cell phone at the same time. Some things were best done one at a time, she thought, like driving and text messaging. Her goal was getting to her destination without harm to others as well as herself. She kept her phone calls brief. She also made sure her family knows, “If I don’t answer it’s because I’m driving. When I stop, I’ll call you back.” “Highway safety experts are now claiming cell phone use while driving is a public health issue and are demanding more education and restrictions on such electronic devices,” writes Deidre Bello, associate editor of Safety & Health magazine. Her article poses the question of how multitasking while driving should be addressed. Early in 2007 a local restaurateur was killed when his SUV struck a utility pole. The news report advised that he was using his cell phone at the tie of the crash. But cell phone use isn’t the only multitasking behavior at issue. How...
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