| Today, in the United States, there are about two | | | | can affect driving are texting and driving, taking your |
| hundred and fifty million phones being used and at | | | | eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. |
| any given point of time, at a conservative estimate, | | | | If there are eight lakh drivers TWD at any given |
| there may be as much as eight lakh drivers' texting | | | | point of time, you as a driver, needs to be extra |
| while driving. One can imagine how big the problem of | | | | careful, while driving. This is the reason why many |
| texting while driving is - or maybe one will realize only | | | | governments (at least fourteen) have come out with |
| when there is an accident. We are overconfident | | | | a clear, unambiguous texting while driving policy, |
| about our ability to send text messages and drive at | | | | which prohibits sending text messages while driving |
| the same time. We do not realize that however fast | | | | provided one has downloaded the safe driving app |
| we think we are in sending text messages, driving | | | | which permits you to listen to text messages or |
| also is a task which needs complete concentration | | | | receive calls through hands free option. |
| and even a moment's distraction, especially while | | | | All of us must be very clear of the grave dangers of |
| driving at high speeds can be fatal. Studies have | | | | using the cell phone while driving. Our recklessness |
| shown that a drunk driver would cause a vehicle to | | | | could cause irreparable damage to others. As a |
| come to a complete standstill atleast four feet more | | | | parent, one must be counsel our teenaged children |
| than what a sober driver would, but a person using | | | | about the hazards of texting while driving or using |
| the cell phone to text messages while driving at the | | | | the cell phone without the hands free option. We |
| same time, would take as much as seventy feet | | | | must impress upon our children the importance of |
| more to bring his vehicle to a stop as compared to a | | | | adhering to the texting while driving policy unless we |
| driver who is not using the cell. The reason for this is | | | | wish to be punished. Let us not realize our folly when |
| obvious - a drunk driver has both his hands on the | | | | it is too late. It is better to be a little sensible and |
| wheel and his eyes on the road, whereas a driver | | | | realize that one cannot multi task all the time. Driving |
| who is testing messages while driving, would have | | | | is something which needs complete concentration and |
| taken his eyes off the road for a short time and for | | | | let us not take that flippantly and attempt to text or |
| some moments would have only one hand on the | | | | use the cell phone without the hands free option |
| wheel, or sometimes none at all, as he may be using | | | | while driving. |
| both his hands to text. Three essential things that | | | | |