How many of us have texted while driving? I bet we all do it! I do it all the time. Our parents, older people, and even tv commercials always tell us to not text and drive. But how many of us actually listen to them? I guess it's easy for us to say that we are always careful when we text and drive. But what would happen if for responding to a text one day and we don't see a stop sign or a stop light and we cause an accident that hurts us or hurts someone else. I guess it doesn't really affect us when it doesn't happen to us. And hopefully it never does happen to us. I mean living with the guilt that you hurt someone or even worst, killed them.
We've seen many news stories of accidents on tv from results of texting. We've even seen the commercials of the lawyers saying they are mad cause of a texting while driving accident. But does that stop us from doing it? We need to be careful while driving because we can hurt so many people with our carelessness.
Texting while driving has been banned in about 20 states now. And many people are working on making it a state law in all of the United States. Though I doubt that that has really stopped many people from doing it. People would think that only teenagers and young adults do it but surprisingly older people have been texting more and more while driving. But we should not be part of this crowd who does this or part of the statistics of texters and drivers. We need to control the urge of texting while behind the wheel. If we get a text then we should wait until we arrive to our destination, pull over, or at least wait until a red light. I guess something that helps me from not texting is that I don't have a car on campus so I don't worry much about that and even when I go home on the weekends I don't drive much.
I think their should be allow against DWT. I get super annoyed when people text while they drive. I get frightened because your looking at the phone while driving. I don't think human beings are capable to handle a multi task like that. Reading while driving is difficult enough imagine replying back. This is one my reasons why I don't drive because there are maniacs out there. I rather get driven around.
ReplyDeleteI would hate to be killed as a result of texting while driving, especially if the message was something incredibly stupid like “LOL”. Personally, I think it is extremely dangerous to text while driving and since my car has stick shift I am more worried about not stalling in the middle of traffic than sending a text message.
ReplyDeleteTexting while driving is big problem. I will honestly say I have texted while driving and it really is dangerous. It takes your attention away from the road and increases your chances of getting into an accident. The best way to avoid it is to wait. Tell friends before hand that you are driving and that you will get back to them later. Safety should be number one because you are not only putting yourself at risk, you are putting others at risk too.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you texting and driving is such a terrible thing! Because we honestly aren't paying attention to the road when we are texting for that split second, and in a split second anything could happen. In some parts of Europe even talking on the phone can get you a ticket.
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