Essays on Distracted Driving

Driving and drinking is among the worst habits practiced by people all over the world. People think that it is okay to drive themselves somewhere or even to their homes after drinking. However, this is one thing that leads to occurrence of accidents on our roads leading to serious consequences. Drinking and driving mostly occurs after partying with friends or even just having alcoholic drinks at a local club in town. Most of the times when someone is under the influence of alcohol, they tend ...

Do you use your cellphone while driving? Much of society does text while driving or use any social media to take selfies while on the road. However, there are many dangers to texting while driving it does not only affect the driver but everyone that surrounds the driver. We think of texting to be a quick action but sometimes it can take our eyes out of the road for quite some time leading to less time to re-focus on the road. There are many ways people can avoid driving and texting without ...

10% of drivers of all ages under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest ratio of drivers who were distracted. Imagine a world where everyone happens to be a perfect driver, where each person can discern the dangerous consequences that are likely involved in texting while driving. In a perfect world, humans would be wise enough to comprehend how dangerous it can be to text while driving. Regrettably, not ...

Distracted driving is a menace that compromises safety on the road. The problem contributes to the escalating number of traffic accidents and injuries. Distracted driving endangers the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. According to statistics, more than eight people die on a daily basis from distracted driving related accidents (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). It is projected the numbers might increase if nothing is done to curb the behavior. A corpus of research indicates that ...

  In the article by David L. Strayer and Frank A. Drews, they both came up with the idea if there were any effects when the drivers were driving while doing hands-free conversations. The findings also were done by four studies to see whether single-tasking or dual-tasking affected the driver’s ability to describe and observe what was presented in front of them while they were driving in a simulation driving.The research question according to the article that was discussed was does ‘cell-phone ...

Distracted driving is an activity where the driver takes his eyes off the road and diverts his or her attention. Distracted driving includes texting, using a cell phone, eating or drinking, reading, talking to passengers, looking a the GPS, etc. There are 3 types of distraction while driving Visual, Manual, and Cognitive distraction. We need to make distracted driving laws much tougher and more strict and even possibly make a device that disables cellular devices while driving. When a person ...

The mobile phone use while driving (MPUWD) is a massive tendency of the people who are driving. According to and White (2010), there are 47% of Australian drivers reported that they have used the mobile phone while they were driving. Also, they found that the young adult drivers are having more tendency to engage this behavior because they are more likely to accept the new technology and having a lack of understanding about the risk of MPUWD. MPUWD is one of the factors to cause the car ...

As activity moderates and eagerness sets in, the impulse to snatch the telephone to get up to speed with email or send a snappy text is difficult to stand up to. Information for 2016 demonstrate a troubling 13 percent increase in passing’s from auto accidents in Massachusetts contrasted and the year earlier, as per a report by the National Safety Council. That is following quite a while of predictable decreases in fatalities. Most specialists point to diverted driving as the fundamental ...

Texting and driving have become a major problem in this day and age. We are in an era where almost all our activities are centered around our phones. It has almost become sort of an unavoidable and incurable addiction. It should not be surprising that a good number of crashes that occur on our roads today are caused by this addiction; texting while driving.According to a statistical release by the National safety council, 1.6 million accidents that happen every year are caused by texting while ...

Motor vehicle collisions are currently considered one of the main causes of death in adolescents. These car accidents can occur for many reasons, the cause we are going to focus on is car collisions due to texting while driving. This is considered a fairly common practice among adolescents and young adults; this behavior can also see it in older adults but less commonly. According to the National Safety Council (2019), it is estimated that there are approximately 1.6 million cases of car ...

Everyone's mom has most likely said “don't look at the screen too long, it’ll fry your brains” but that’s not really true… right? One thing that is consistently mentioned is phone usage in youth and adults, it’s almost always some bad news related to the subject. There are many different controversial things about phones but let's start with texting.Next, another problem social life. Psychiatrist Romeo Vitelli from Psychology Today says “the most common way of communication between middle ...

Did you know that 8 out 10 car distracted driving accidents are caused primarily by the use of cell phones? “With the widespread use of cell phones, the danger of being distracted while driving has become more than an increasingly prominent social issue.” (Gale, aGengage Company, Page1).Our actions and consequences shape our path and reveal our personality; choosing to do certain actions results into changes, also called, consequences. This shows others like your family, friends or colleagues ...

As a driver, one may be exposed to numerous risks that jeopardize their safety while on the roadways. Safety risks include potholes, construction work, pedestrians, and finally, distracted drivers, perhaps being the riskiest. Operating a vehicle without fully concentrating on the road and maintaining control of the vehicle is, in a nutshell, the definition of distracted driving. Tragically enough, while the majority of drivers comprehend the risks involved with distracted driving, it remains a ...