Cell Phone Use While Driving Resolved: That the state of Michigan should pass a law banning the use of cell phones while driving. ... The current system isn't working because people are using cell phones aren't concerned with the road, they"re concerned about their cell phones. ... If a neighboring driver is talking on a cell phone, your life is at risk. ... Drivers on cell phones many times are unaware of their surroundings on the road. About 44% of motorists have a cell phone or car phone in their vehicles at all times. ...

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The National Council on Public Safety has recently issued a plea to ban all cell phone uses for drivers. ... Due to the serious harm cell phone use can cause while driving, laws to ban cell phone use while driving should be executed. ... Texting or talking on a cell phone while driving is a huge distraction and can cause serious harm to not only to you but also to others on the road. ... Just because someone's eyes and hands aren't on their cell phone doesn't mean they're completely focus on the road. ... The laws on cell phone use while driving will decrease accidents on t...

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Not surprisingly, drivers who use a cell phone while driving perceive cell phone use by others as less of a threat to their safety as do non-users. One out of five drivers who use a cell phone while driving sees this activity as a major threat. The number of accidents caused by talking on a cell phone accounts for six and a half million a year. ... Even with recent talk on banning the use of cell phones while driving it can never be fully controlled. Regardless of government regulations restricting the use of cells phones while driving, people may choose to continue their bad, and illegal, hab...

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Well I hate to tell you but it's probably someone just like me who is using a cell phone, eating, or even trying to read. ... Cell phones, although helpful to us when in an emergency, are used way to often in a car. When on a cell phone we have at least one hand free, but then I think about when I eat and I have no hands free and I use my knee to drive. ... Worst of all when these things happen at the same time; eating, people honking at us, and then a cell phone ringing , and trying to turn the radio down. ... I doubt that this will ever stop, but I know now how annoying it is to almost...

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Talking on the cell phone is also a very dangerous driving habit. Cell phones have become very popular amongst our society and are seen almost every where we look. ... People who drive and talk on the cell phone are more accident-prone because their attention is directed to the conversation not to the road. Hundreds of accidents have occurred as a result of careless use of cell phones while driving....

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They talk on their cell phones and completely forget where they are and realize they are about to miss their exit or they"re in the wrong lane, and quickly change lanes not even looking to see who is behind them. ... A new and very distracting problem is cell phones. Most every person owns a cell phone now and use them at all times of day, even when they are driving. People talking on the phone and driving always forget where they are and end up missing their exit. ... The phone has no place on the road, yet people insist on becoming a hazard to the highway. ...

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The tasks tested were talking on a cell phone, talking on a cell phone using a headset, eating and listening to loud music. ... On one occasion I noticed a driver on the New Jersey Turnpike talking on a headset cell phone with a lap top style computer propped open by the steering wheel. He was looking at the computer, talking on the cell phone and one only can guess how, but driving 65 mph down the road. ...

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Cellular phones are the biggest distraction to teens on the road. As a teen, I know how important a cell phone is, I rarely even use my home phone anymore, and I guess out of boredom I find the need to be on it every time I"m in the car. Cell phone usage while driving is considered so dangerous; it's even outlawed in some areas of the country. ... Cellular phones are the main technological gadgets distracting our many inadequately skilled teen drivers, but there is also a completely new breed of toys for your vehicle. ... The incorporation of gadgets in American vehicles has gone beyo...

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Fuel cells are also very efficient but they are not perfect either. Fuel cells only work with hydrogen and methane, both can be very hazardous fuels (Tomorrow's Engine 26). ... Radios and car phones are transforming into GPS navigation systems, DVD players, and even wireless Internet-access devices. ... This would also allow the driver to make cellular phone calls without using a cell phone (Terry Costlow 6). ...

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In the traffic environment one aspect that occupies several disciplines is the aspect of traffic safety. All disciplines have to think about that different traffic safety measures have other effects than just reducing the risk of being killed or injured, such as increased travel time, inconvenience, environmental impact, etc. The dividing line between economist and other researchers is that economists study to what limit it is possible for the individual to give up money and wealth in order to improve traffic safety, like the relation between the increase in utility from the safety improvement...

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Technology It seems that no matter where you go these days you run into some kind of computer or palm pilot, cell phone or some "needed" device. ... Maybe different people have different reasons to "need" a cell phone or a personal computer or any other handy gadget and who's to say they are wrong. ...

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He then asked, "Where"re the cell phones?" ... He checked my pockets, the cell phones weren't there. Ryan then started to panic and went running back to the car to look for the cell phones. ... I asked to use their phone to call my parents. ...

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Often times it is hard for authorities to catch people texting and driving because they cannot see the phone itself;however this is going to change soon. ... If authorities investigate and find out you were on your cell phone you will be ticketed and fined on top of the other expenses. ...

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There was no way of communicating with the others as we had no cell phones. This town was in upstate where we all lived so it was very hard to find any food stores or candy shops that we could have made a phone call. ...

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Driving is an important part of any person's life, but one should not drive unless they are aware of the consequences of doing so. As a member of the youth advisory board it is my duty to help make people aware of the proper precautions one must take while driving. Car accidents can happen from any ...

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The one thing that everybody wants, but never seems to have enough of is money, mullah, dinero, and cash. However you want to call it, it really doesn't matter. People can never seem to have enough of the route of all-evil. But my question why? Why do some people have more cash than they no what...

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This is better than carrying around a GPS that comes off your dashboard because no one can break your window and steal this GPS, and it is also better than using your phone as a GPS because doing that drains your phones battery life and also uses all of your mobile data. ... This feature allows the driver to make calls by talking to the car, send texts by saying what the person wants to say without touching their phone, and play music from a phone. This is also a very good safety feature because this way there is no reason for the driver to touch their phones while driving. 25 percent of accid...

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You know when your dad tells you to pay attention on the road, and you kind of blow him off, well, unfortunately this summer I figured out exactly why they say that. In July 2003, the summer before my senior year in high school I drove a 1990 Ford Tempo with tinted windows, 14" chrome wheels, and ...

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It's Just Simple Courtesy I was driving to school one day, when a truck in front of me grabbed my attention. The truck had a very flamboyant license plate frame that in bright bold letters read,COURTESY MY ASS, THIS IS CALIFORNIA!? There could be numerous meanings behind this slogan, but I chuc...

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Profit is the return received on a business enterprise after all operating expenses have been met. Palladium was cheaper than platinum and since it does a better job cleaning up auto emissions than platinum, automobile manufactures use palladium instead of platinum as they chose tighter pollution e...

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Can you believe I have ten million dollars? Yeah, me neither. Walking down the block one day I just happen to come across a dog. Looking at its collar, I figured out who the owner was and decided to do my good deed of the day by bringing it home. To my surprise the dog was very rare and a prize winn...

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Can you believe I have ten million dollars? Yeah, me neither. Walking down the block one day I just happen to come across a dog. Looking at its collar, I figured out who the owner was and decided to do my good deed of the day by bringing it home. To my surprise the dog was very rare and a prize winn...

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1. Blow-outs: Under-inflated tires can lead to a tire blowout, so you should check your tire pressure often. Slowly ease off the gas pedal and gently press on the brake. Slamming on the brakes will only make you lose control of the car faster. 2. Brake Failure: Try to steer towards the safest pa...

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