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    This document discusses the dangers of distracted driving caused by cell phone use and argues for banning cell phones while driving. It states that distracted driving leads to reduced reaction times and more accidents. The introduction of smartphones has increased distracted driving as people constantly check updates. Using a cell phone while driving can impair concentration and lead drivers to miss turns or hazards. The laws banning cell phone use while driving vary by state and are not consistently enforced. The conclusion is that banning all cell phone use is necessary to make roads safer and prevent avoidable deaths from distracted driving.

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    This document discusses the dangers of distracted driving caused by cell phone use and argues for banning cell phones while driving. It states that distracted driving leads to reduced reaction times and more accidents. The introduction of smartphones has increased distracted driving as people constantly check updates. Using a cell phone while driving can impair concentration and lead drivers to miss turns or hazards. The laws banning cell phone use while driving vary by state and are not consistently enforced. The conclusion is that banning all cell phone use is necessary to make roads safer and prevent avoidable deaths from distracted driving.

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    This document discusses the dangers of distracted driving caused by cell phone use and argues for banning cell phones while driving. It states that distracted driving leads to reduced reaction times and more accidents. The introduction of smartphones has increased distracted driving as people constantly check updates. Using a cell phone while driving can impair concentration and lead drivers to miss turns or hazards. The laws banning cell phone use while driving vary by state and are not consistently enforced. The conclusion is that banning all cell phone use is necessary to make roads safer and prevent avoidable deaths from distracted driving.

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    This document discusses the dangers of distracted driving caused by cell phone use and argues for banning cell phones while driving. It states that distracted driving leads to reduced reaction times and more accidents. The introduction of smartphones has increased distracted driving as people constantly check updates. Using a cell phone while driving can impair concentration and lead drivers to miss turns or hazards. The laws banning cell phone use while driving vary by state and are not consistently enforced. The conclusion is that banning all cell phone use is necessary to make roads safer and prevent avoidable deaths from distracted driving.

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    Banning the Use of Cell Phones While Driving

    Student’s Name

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    Driving is categorized among the occupational hazards when a momentary lapse in

    concentration can have disastrous results. Distracted driving is a killer as it leads to reduced

    reaction times, thereby causing fatal accidents in situations where keen drivers would have

    avoided. More people are dying of avoidable accidents than ever before on the roads as they

    fiddle with the phones, stereos and general lack of attentiveness emanating from distractions.

    The introduction of social media sites has resulted in frequent updates and a constant desire to

    keep on checking. Rarely do today’s drivers keep their eyes entirely on the road unless their

    phone batteries deplete or they are in low network areas. The banning of such a killer on the

    roads is the most logical thing to do, and the concerned persons should move with speed to

    ensure that it happens in all states.

    Distracted driving poses a danger to the active mobile phone users and other victims of

    circumstances. Just like driving under the influence of toxins, the impaired concentration results

    in cutting through lanes on a highway, failure to notice that the vehicles ahead have stopped and

    that there are lane mergers ahead (Didier, 2014). Getting the persons to effect individual and

    communal responsibility to ensure societal change would help keep the menace off the roads.

    Society has no room for distracted driving on the roads as they only bring unmitigated

    disaster. Fatalities are entirely avoidable as no phone call, or text is so important that the driver

    cannot spare two minutes to pull over and answer (Coben & Zhu, 2013). In the case of

    emergency calls, returning such calls after a minute or two and after parking off the road also

    results in a quick response.

    All human beings are destined to pass away at some time, and humanity has accepted it

    as the sad truth. The assumption is, however, that everyone will reach their destiny at the
    BANNING THE USE OF CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING 3

    appointed time, and not through the carelessness of some of us. In essence, motoring is an

    invention that has made human beings achieves a mobility that they never had before. It is

    indisputable that motor vehicles brought an ease of doing business and communicating than any

    other invention before them. However, consigned to the back pages of newspapers is the fact that

    with motor vehicles zooming past every outpost across the globe, an immense pain and suffering

    follow them. While it is factual to attribute driver distraction as one of the leading causes of

    accidents, none of the distractions plays a bigger role than actively engaging with a cell phone

    (Dinkelacker, 2005). Hazards of using the phone while driving revolve around the fact that

    distracted drivers are dangerous drivers, it disrespects other road users, and that lack of uniform

    application of deterrents makes it a societal shortcoming.

    When drivers are distracted, they take longer to visualize changes in the smooth flow

    of traffic, react slower, and are uncoordinated in their driving thereby becoming a danger unto

    themselves. The distracted drivers miss their turns, break suddenly and intrude onto other lanes.

    The manual, visual and cognitive abilities are compromised making them momentarily

    ineffective (Rosenberger, 2014).

    Driving demands inter-communication since drivers indicate and communicate on

    exits, lane changes, and other possible hazards. A distracted driver misses the turns, the hazards

    and changes lanes that make them intrude into the path of other drivers and eventually

    inconveniencing them.

    The systems have lacked uniformity in application and resulted in various states

    applying the laws sporadically. No state has a comprehensive ban on phone usage while on the

    wheels even as it continues to cause fatalities. Unlike driving under the influence of toxins, the

    laws in place are not punitive enough to deter texting or calling when driving.
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    In conclusion, cell phones have emerged as killers on our roads in spite of the fact that

    they are avoidable. Texting takes away far too many seconds off the road, and the results can be

    too dire to contemplate. There is no justification in losing lives to reply a text that can wait. To

    be safe from preventable and distracted driving, a permanent ban on all cell phone use needs to

    be in place. There is a great necessity to enact laws that punish the drivers as much as there is

    uniformity in driving while intoxicated. States should not let those that use the phone off the

    hook lightly; they may kill the next person crossing the road. Such measures reduce the

    permanent distraction of drivers and make the road safer.


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    References

    Coben, J. & Zhu, M. (2013). Keeping an eye on distracted driving. JAMA, 309(9), 877.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.491

    Didier, J. (2014). Using critical thinking to change distracted driving behaviors. Critical

    Thinking across the Disciplines, 29(1), 56-62.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/inquiryct20142915

    Dinkelacker, T. (2005). Driving distracted while in your employ: Liability involving cell phones.

    The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 8(2), 165-175.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15503461tpmj0802_7

    Rosenberger, R. (2014). The phenomenological case for stricter regulation of cell phones and

    driving. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 18(1), 20-47.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201461717

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