benefits such as staying connected on long car rides where there may not be any service, but can have some negative effects such as promoting the use of technology while in a car. Now today a big problem is texting and driving/ distracted driving, so how would this new technology affect people while they’re operating a vehicle? An ethical issue with having 4G LTE in a vehicle is that an outside source could hack into your vehicle and control the different components of vehicle. There have been multiple
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use or for work. To me we rely so heavily on the cell phone that it is becoming dangerous. Think to a time when you were driving down the road and came up on a slower vehicle. They were swerving within their lane, couldn’t keep a constant speed and just seemed like they were completely distracted and not paying attention to the road and the seemingly easy task of driving. You want to get by the person but every time an opportunity to do so came into view it would quickly disappear because the
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responsibility to monitor the excessive and misusage of cellular phones because it is affecting our health, reflecting negatively on our behavior in public spaces and it is a genuine danger when associated with our daily routine activities. Walking, driving, and communicating are different tasks that require our full attention. Newspapers daily discuss incidents related to misuse of the technology. It is everyone’s responsibility to educate themselves and others about actions to take that will help
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messages were sent world-wide last year. Texting while driving has become more common in today’s society than it has ever been. I would like all people driving behind the wheel of any vehicle to stop using their cell phones while driving because it is extremely dangerous and irresponsible. People need to be against texting while driving because it causes a large number of car accidents every year. Many of them are fatal. While driving, teenagers and adults cannot resist the urge to pick up
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to influence a certain mood. In many areas a person can walk into, there is a high possibility that music will be playing. Due to music’s relevance to everyday life, there has been a multitude of research based on whether music is a distraction to people. A distraction in most research would be shown as lower results in tests for groups who listened to background music compared to those who did not listen to background music while being tested. Background music is music that participants listen to
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Road Rage Emotions and attitudes can become a distraction when you are driving, this is why you should be aware of the affect that distractions have on your driving safety. Emotions like anger and stress can be as distracting as drinking and cell phone use. This emotions can be originated because of driving in difficult conditions. This is called road rage, or aggressive driving. There are different ideas society has about what this means, some of them are that it is just a way to take advantage
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Is Technology a Distraction for Teens? Many days when I come home, I grab something to eat, have a quick chat about my day with my mother, and then head upstairs. I slump down at my desk and turn on my PC. Before I know it, it’s 7:00 and I have barely even touched my homework! I cannot tell you how many times this has happened to me (it’s a lot, by the way), and I have stayed up rather late on several occasions because of this. Technology is becoming an extreme distraction for teens, especially
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Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving Amber R. Muniz Kaplan University Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving A cell phone wielding driver weaving in and out of traffic and drifting across lanes, because they are completely distracted by the device in their hand, may be all too familiar. When using a cell phone while driving, it impairs the persons driving abilities as much as a person with a 0.08 blood alcohol level. Think of the drivers that you pass daily; how many were using cell phones
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Driving and Mobile Phones 2 In the early 1900's mobile phones were introduced. As time went on mobile phones became apart of people daily lives. Today, most people aren’t able to function without their phones. Whatever you personal preference is your mobile phone can do it. Mobile companies are in a constant battle to offer more services for less and the phone are getting smaller, faster, and better quality. These services are a strong competitor for land line companies. In fact
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in so much danger due to the excessive amount of people texting while driving. Texting while driving may seem so simple to accomplish to many, but a lot of us don’t understand and won’t understand until something tragic happens. This alone has been a very heavily discussed issue within the people in the United States. However, in order to limit and decrease incidents due to texting while driving, I believe texting while driving should no longer exist in our society. I’m sure you can’t imagine that
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