Talking and Driving

... required to ask whether a driver had been on the phone during an accident. The US Fatality Accident Reporting database, combined with data from Wilson and Stimpson and adjusted for climate, state demographics, and other factors, found that distracted driving fatalities would have decreased from 4,611 to 1,925 per year from 2001 to 2007 had texting not existed. Because of its existence, fatalities actually ... LaHood referred to the recent onslaught of fatalities caused by cell phones as "an epidemic. It's an epidemic because everyone has a cellphone - and everyone thinks they can use it...

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... more than being drunk. The Direct Line study, carried out over three months, involved testing the reaction times and driving performance of a panel of volunteers using a sophisticated driving simulator. Researchers tested how driving was impaired by talking on a hand-held mobile phone, a hands-free phone, and when drivers had consumed enough alcohol to be above the legal drink-drive limit. (par. 1). The results demonstrate that drivers ... of Medicine. This risk is similar to the hazard associated with drunk driving. According to the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 6 percent of the au...

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... , drivers should invest in new technologies, such as hands-free and Bluetooth devices, that allow them to keep their eyes on the road and avoid crashes." Pictured below are some of the different hands-free apparatus. It stands to reason that hands-free talking while driving is much safer than handheld talking while driving. This supplement adds the benefit of not having to fumble for ... a cell phone, push multiple buttons, find the contact you are looking for, and dial that person's number. With a voice command phone mounted on the dashboard, you can, " ... -free mobile phone device...

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... .com). Cell phones are a hazard to those who use them while driving, as well as those driving around them. Cell phones pose a very dangerous hazard when someone who is driving an automobile uses them. When a person is talking on their phone, they tend to not pay as close attention to the road and those around them. Another instance when they are dangerous is when someone ... . I will address some of them and show why they may not necessarily hold true. One argument is that cell phone laws would be an infringement on personal freedoms. A law against driving with a cell phone would not be i...

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... 's a pedestrian in front of your car that your gonna hit. It gets dangerous when one of three things happens, when you're talking while you're driving, when you're driving and the music is blaring and talking on the cell phone, and eating and driving with a cell phone on. You're driving downtown today and you take your cell phone for safety reasons. When you pull out your cell phone ... forgotten everything that you would have repeated your action and hurt people again. If you had remembered what happened as if awoken from a dream you might think twice about the way you drive. When I mea...

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... taking their eyes off the road), manual (taking their hands off the wheel), and cognitive (taking their minds off the road). Although all kinds of distractions can affect safety adversely, talking and texting on a cell phone while driving have emerged as two of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving. Text messaging is particularly hazardous because it involves all three types of distraction ... -- visual, manual, and cognitive -- and it is an increasingly common behavior. In the words of John Lee, Ph ... Drivers who use cell phones are four times more likely to get into crashes."...

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Texting and driving has been a popular topic for the past couple of years. The National Council on Public Safety has recently issued a plea to ban all cell phone uses for drivers. They argued proof demonstrating an increase in accidents and fatalities because drivers were texting or talking while driving. Due to the serious harm cell phone use can cause while driving, laws to ban cell phone use ... while driving should be executed. In doing so, accidents will be prevented and lives will be saved. Teenagers are ignorant to the dangers of texting and driving therefore, it is the states responsi...

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... . We, as automobile drivers, all have developed some bad driving habits. The first step towards improving our driving is being aware of the habits we have developed. Many of these drivers have dangerous habits. The following are dangerous to do while driving: drinking or eating while driving, talking on cell phones, driving without their head lights on, and not wearing a seatbelt. There are a number of accidents that ... occur everyday as the direct result of eating and drinking while driving. Coffee, hot soup, chili, tacos, and burgers are included in the list of most dangerous food ......

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... must be done inside the actual test itself to examine the potential risks that are associated with talking on the phone and driving. To ensure that the test is not unfair, the correct people should be examined with a control and then under the correct circumstances. The experimenters and researchers should take on the responsibility to make sure that the test is maintained throughout the entire ... the possibilities of injury. To ensure that the only variable being tested is talking on the phone while driving, all other outside stimuli should be removed. Some other possible stimuli incl...

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