... too slow, or too fast, or straying across lanes, or floating through a red light or making an awkward turn - only to later discover the driver was chatting away with a cell phone in his or her left hand? As I was driving down Highway 101 recently, I saw a black SUV ... Also, a few weeks ago the California Highway Patrol released a report that said talking on cell phones is the leading cause of crashes attributed to driver distraction. Despite the danger, you can't legislate a solution. It comes back to taking personal responsibility. And the CHP study provides clear evidence that cell .....

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... is something that I experience every day. My definition of road rage is when someone gets angry enough when driving to use their car to deliberately try to make a fellow driver mad or to put another driver in danger. Picture this. You"re driving down route 22, the speed limit is fifty-five, and you"re doing sixty miles per hour, a safe enough range ... were different the end result was that all them were distracting and could lead to accidents. Yet every day I see drivers multi-tasking in their cars. On one occasion I noticed a driver on the New Jersey Turnpike talking on a headset cell...

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... sheet.   What's going on here? Disrespect (for the teacher and their own education) and a misguided belief in multitasking, are a couple of things that come to mind. But what if my fellow students actually  can't  put down their phones "not even to pay attention to a fairly complex class that they paid a lot of money to take? Research on the possibility of ... 't randomly sampled (they all came from a class at Baylor), it's unclear how generalizable the results are to a larger population of college-aged people. Still, based on the behavior of my fellow classmates, I'm guessing Roberts...

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